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Klappentext This volume deals with the crisis in the representation of the monarchy that was provoked by the execution of Charles I. Zusammenfassung Charles I was the only English monarch to be tried and executed! and this volume examines the resulting crisis in the representation of the monarchy. It addresses not only the period of mid-century crisis but also the earlier years of Charles's reign and the afterlife of his royal image. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Duke, Prince and King: problems, transitions and transformations in the early representation of Charles I Thomas N Corns; 2. 'A ball of strife': Caroline poetry and royal marriage Ann Baynes Coiro; 3. Popular representations of Charles I Joad Raymond; 4. 'Incendiaries of the State': Charles I and tyranny Martin Dzelzainis; 5. The King among radicals: godly Republicans, Levellers, Diggers and Fifth Monarchists David Loewenstein; 6. Eikon Basilike and the rhetoric of self-representation Elizabeth Skerpan Wheeler; 7. Milton and King Charles Sharon Achinstein; 8. The King's Music Jonathan P. Wainwright; 8. The visual image of Charles I John Peacock; 10. The royal martyr in the Restoration: national grief and national sin Lois Potter; 11. Reviving the martyr king: Charles I as Jacobite icon Laura Lunger Knuppers; 12. The royal image: an afterword Kevin Sharpe; Index.