Book contents
- Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Turmoil, Political and Otherwise
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of Anti-Calvinism
- Chapter 7 Royalist Writing and the Trope of Prison
- Chapter 8 Shakespearean Constitutions: Literary Culture and Republicanism
- Chapter 9 “The Best of Texts”: The Death of Charles I
- Chapter 10 A British Caesar? Representations of Oliver Cromwell
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - “The Best of Texts”: The Death of Charles I
from Part II - Literature and Ideological Transformation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2019
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Book contents
- Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660
- Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1557–1714
- Political Turmoil: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1623–1660
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Turmoil, Political and Otherwise
- Part I Generic Transitions
- Part II Literature and Ideological Transformation
- Chapter 6 The Symbolism of Anti-Calvinism
- Chapter 7 Royalist Writing and the Trope of Prison
- Chapter 8 Shakespearean Constitutions: Literary Culture and Republicanism
- Chapter 9 “The Best of Texts”: The Death of Charles I
- Chapter 10 A British Caesar? Representations of Oliver Cromwell
- Part III Literature and Cultural Transformation
- Part IV Literature and Local Transformation
- Index
- References
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Further Reading
Corns, Thomas, ed., The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I (Cambridge University Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Dobranski, Stephen B., “Principle and Politics in Milton’s Areopagitica,” in Knoppers, Laura Lunger, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Literature and the English Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013), 190–205.Google Scholar
McDowell, Nicholas, “Milton’s Regicide Tracts and the Uses of Shakespeare,” in McDowell and Smith, Nigel, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford University Press, 2009), 252–71.Google Scholar
Skerpan-Wheeler, Elizabeth, “The First ‘Royal’: Charles I as Celebrity,” PMLA, 126.4 (2011), 912–34.Google Scholar