By Alan Stewart
Because the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest,' James had the main precarious of childhoods. Even prior to his beginning, his existence used to be threatened: it used to be rumored that his father, Henry, had attempted to make the pregnant Mary miscarraige by way of forcing her to witness the assasination of her intended lover, David Riccio. by the point James was once a one-year-old, Henry was once murdered, most likely with the connivance of his mom, Mary used to be in exile in England and he was once King of Scotland. via the age of 5, he had skilled 3 diverse regents because the old dynasties of Scotland battled for strength and made him a digital prisoner in Stirling fort. in reality, James didn't set foot outdoor the confines of Stirling until eventually he was once 11, whilst he took keep watch over of the rustic. yet inspite of energy in his fingers, he may by no means believe secure. For the remainder of his lifestyles, he may be stuck up in sour struggles among the warring political and non secular factions who fought for regulate over his brain and body.
Biography:
Alan Stewart writes on early glossy literature, heritage, and tradition. he's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia college in big apple and overseas Director of the Centre for enhancing Lives and Letters in London (www.livesandletters.ac.uk). His courses comprise shut Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early glossy England (1997); Hostage to Fortune: The stricken lifetime of Francis Bacon 1561-1626 (with Lisa Jardine, 1998); Philip Sidney: A Double lifestyles (2000); The Cradle King: a lifetime of James VI and that i (2003); Letterwriting in Renaissance England (with Heather Wolfe, 2004) and Shakespeare's Letters (2008). With Garrett Sullivan, he's co-general editor of a brand new 3 quantity Encyclopdia of English Renaissance Literature, released through Wiley-Blackwell in January 2012. such a lot lately, he has edited quantity I, Early Writings 1584-1596, of the Oxford Francis Bacon for Oxford collage Press (September 2012). He has received awards from the British Academy, the humanities and arts learn Board, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 he used to be a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.
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