Article: An echo of 'Henry IV, Part 2,' in a work by King James I?

Maurice Lee has aptly observed that King James I "was far from unaware of the importance of propaganda and symbolism" (153). James himself wrote of the "glistering worldly glorie of Kings" and that "Kings being publike persons, by reason of their office and authority, are as it were set (as it was said of old) vpon a publike stage" (Doron 5, 12). In the later part of his reign, James may have unconsciously seen himself on the stage and succumbed to the suggestive power of its imagery. A passage from the Dedication addressed to Prince Charles in James's Meditation vpon . . . St. Matthew (1620) seems to suggest as much:

And one of our owne predecessors Henrie the ...

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