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King Charles I
Standard Name: Charles I, King
Used Form: King Charles the First
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Mary Ferrar | The hold exerted on T. S. Eliot
's imagination by Little Gidding seems to have been produced by the idea of the community, not by their texts. His poem Little Gidding gives little hint that... |
| Textual Production | Mary Fage | |
| Leisure and Society | Ephelia | From an early age, the personal beauty of Lady Mary Villiers and her prominence at court ensured that she was painted many times: by Van Dyck
(especially), John Michael Wright
, and possibly Lely
... |
| politics | Ephelia | Ephelia was, from her poems, a Tory, a passionate supporter of the Stuart monarchy. In 1645 Mary, Duchess of Richmond, was advising Prince Rupert
by letter on his relations with Charles I
. |
| Publishing | Ephelia | The initial letter H (Hail Mighty Prince!) in the 1679 reprint is rendered by a woodcut ornament or factotum with portraits of two crowned figures, one of each sex, with the royal rose... |
| Fictionalization | Ephelia | In 2007 Cheryl Sawyer
, in a historical novel entitled The Winter Prince, presented a triangular relationship between the happily-married Duchess of Richmond (already a poet, identified as the future Ephelia), her husband
... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
| Textual Production | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
commemorated the fatal anniversary of Charles I
's execution in The Bill of Excommunication. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 293ff |
| Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Douglas | Her vision was announced by the voice of the biblical prophet Daniel (whom she had been studying). This was during the first year and first parliament of Charles I
's reign. She found seven more... |
| Textual Features | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This work anagramatises Eleanor Audelie as Reveale O Daniel and Eleanor Davies as A Snare O Devil. Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press. 1, 6 |
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The burning was ordered by Archbishop Laud
and the Court of High Commission
, in spite of support for LED
from Charles I
's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia
. LED
was sentenced to imprisonment... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In the same year, in the poem To Sion most Belov'd I Sing, she compared Charles I
to King Belshazzar in her favourite book of Daniel, whose feast was interrupted by the divine... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Lady Eleanor Douglas | This two-part allegorical tract or prophecy, To the High Court (which repeats almost exactly a title LED
had used in 1641) and Samsons Legacie, makes Charles I
and Henrietta Maria
modern avatars of the... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
first lobbied Henrietta Maria
and Charles I
about her estates, then began publicly prophesying. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 49-52 |
| Reception | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
's Amsterdam publications (one of which was believed to threaten the king
's life) were publicly burned. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press. 64-6 |
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