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Divine Right of Kings
Further Reading
Robert Filmer, Political writings, Johann P. Sommerville ed, (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
John Neville Figgis, The Divine Right of Kings, originally published (Cambridge, 1895); available in various subsequent editions, including a 2007 hardback and paperback reprint by Kessinger Publishing in their Legacy Reprint series (ISBN: 0548289018; 978-0548289013)
David Wootton, Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England, (Penguin, 1986)
Paul Monod, The Power of Kings, (Yale, 1999)
Thomas Corns (ed), The Royal Image, (Cambridge, 1999)
Nicola Smith, The Royal Image and the English People, (Ashgate, 2001)
William Shakespeare, Richard II, edited Andrew Gurr, New Cambridge Shakespeare, updated edition, (Cambridge University Press, 2003), ISBN 0521532485
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid's Tragedy, edited by T.W. Craik, Revels Plays, (Manchester University Press, 1999) ISBN 0719030986
John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, in Milton: Political Writing, edited by Martin Dzelzanis, (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1991) ISBN: 0521348668. Milton’s fierce attack on monarchy’s claims of legitimacy.
Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince, edited by Lisa Jardine, (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1997) ISBN: 0521588111. Argues a Christian monarch’s legitimacy rests in temperate government enacted through virtue and justice.
James VI and I, The Trew Law of Free Monarchies, in King James VI and I: Political Writings, edited by J.P. Sommerville, (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1995) ISBN: 0521447291.
