Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. He was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after hi ...
has been depicted in popular culture a number of times.
Music
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Curse My Name, a song by German power metal band
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a German power metal band formed in 1984 in Krefeld, West Germany. They are often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres.[At the Edge of Time
''At the Edge of Time'' is the ninth studio album by the German power metal band Blind Guardian. A two-CD version of the album was released, with the second disc containing eight tracks. The artwork for the album was created by Colombian artist ...]
'' (2010), depicts the downfall and
execution of Charles I
The execution of Charles I by beheading occurred on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in E ...
.
* "King Charles" is a song on the 2018 debut EP of English musician
Yungblud
Dominic Richard Harrison (born 5 August 1997), known professionally as Yungblud (pronounced "Youngblood"), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor. In 2018, he released his first EP, ''Yungblud'', followed shortly after by the albu ...
.
Literature
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Jowitt views the character of the gentleman Vitelli in
Massinger Massinger is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Philip Massinger
Philip Massinger (1583 – 17 March 1640) was an English dramatist. His finely plotted plays, including '' A New Way to Pay Old Debts'', ''The City Mada ...
's 1624 play ''
The Renegado
''The Renegado, or The Gentleman of Venice'' is a late Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger and first published in 1630. The play has attracted critical attention for its treatment of cultural conflict between Christia ...
'' as an allegory of the prince during the failed marriage attempt.
* There is the manuscript of play entitled ''Charles I'' by
Percy Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley ( ; 4 August 17928 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achie ...
, started in early 1822 and left unfinished after his death.
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Twenty Years After
''Twenty Years After'' (french: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of ''The d'Artagnan Romances'', it is a sequel to ''The Three Musketeers'' (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 no ...
'', by
Alexandre Dumas, gives a highly fictionalised account of Charles I's downfall, trial and death condensed into a few days. The book's fictional villain, Mordaunt, is depicted as the king's executioner, while
Athos, Aramis, D'Artagnan and Porthos are his secret – and unsuccessful – helpers.
*''
John Inglesant'' (1881), by
Joseph Henry Shorthouse, features the hero meeting Charles I.
*''In High Places'' (1898) by
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era. She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel ''Lady Audley's Secret'', which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.
...
depicts the youth of Charles I.
*''1649: A Novel of a Year'' by
Jack Lindsay (1938) begins with Charles' execution.
*The Civil War period is seen through the eyes of the fictional Morland family in ''The Oak Apple'', Volume 4 of ''
The Morland Dynasty
''The Morland Dynasty'' is a series of historical novels by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, in the genre of a family saga. They recount the lives of the Morland family of York, England and their national and international relatives and associates.
There ...
'', a series of historical novels by author
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (born 13 August 1948) is a British writer of romance and mystery novels. She normally writes under her own name but also uses the pseudonyms Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett. Cynthia was born on 13 August 1948 at Shephe ...
.
* ''Mary of Carisbrooke: The Girl Who Would Not Betray Her King'' by
Margaret Campbell Barnes
Margaret Campbell Barnes (27 February 1891 – 1 April 1963) was an English writer of short-stories and historical fiction.
Biography
Margaret Campbell Wood was born on 27 February 1891 in Rotherfield, England, UK. She was the youngest of ten ch ...
(1956) narrates the relationship of the titular heroine with Charles, during the latter's imprisonment on the Isle of Wight.
[Lynda G. Adamson, ''World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults''. Greenwood Publishing Group (p. 168).]
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55 Days
''55 Days'' is an English history play by Howard Brenton, centred on the 1649 trial and execution of Charles I of England following the English Civil War. It premiered at the Hampstead Theatre from 18 October to 24 November 2012, in a production d ...
'' (2012 – played in the premiere production by
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, producer and novelist. His work includes writing for and acting in the television series ''Doctor Who'', ''Sherlock (TV series), Sherlock'', and ''Dracu ...
)
* He makes a brief appearance in
Lawrence Norfolk
Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail.
Biography
Though born in London, Norfolk lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read Engli ...
's ''John Saturnall's Feast'', published in 2012 by
Bloomsbury Publishing.
* He's a character in ''The King's Spy'' by Andrew Swanston, set mainly in Oxford; the novel was published in August 2012 by
Bantam Press
Bantam Press is an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is a British publishing division of Penguin Random House.
It is based on Uxbridge Road in Ealing
Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the ...
.
* In ''Traitor's Field'' by
Robert Wilton, published in May 2013 by
Bloomsbury Publishing, the reader follows him from his imprisonment in
Carisbrooke Castle
Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke (near Newport), Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial.
Early history
The site of Carisb ...
on the
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight ( ) is a Counties of England, county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the List of islands of England#Largest islands, largest and List of islands of England#Mo ...
to his trial and, ultimately, execution in
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London. The road forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea. It is the main thoroughfare running south from Trafalgar Square towards Parliament Sq ...
.
* Makes an appearance in
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for ''The Little White Horse''. Goudge was long a popular ...
's 1958 novel, ''The White Witch'', set during the Civil War.
Film and television
On screen, Charles has been portrayed by:
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Russell Thorndike
Arthur Russell Thorndike (6 February 1885 – 7 November 1972) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels. Less well-known than his sister Sybil but equally versatile, Russell Thorndike's first love ...
in the British silent film ''Henrietta Maria; or, The Queen of Sorrow'' (1923)
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Henry Victor
Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor who had his highest profile in the film silent era, he appeared in numerous film roles in Britain, before emigrating to the US in 1939 where he continued ...
in the British silent film ''
The Royal Oak
The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House. C ...
'' (1923), in which he also played
Charles II
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Hugh Miller
Hugh Miller (10 October 1802 – 23/24 December 1856) was a self-taught Scottish geologist and writer, folklorist and an evangelical Christian.
Life and work
Miller was born in Cromarty, the first of three children of Harriet Wright ('' ...
in ''
The Vicar of Bray'' (1937)
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Robert Rietty in ''
The Scarlet Blade
''The Scarlet Blade'' (released in the United States as ''The Crimson Blade'') is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling and starring Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley and June Thorburn.
It is a period drama set du ...
'' (1963)
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Stephen MacDonald in the
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in the Russian film ''Mushketyory 20 let spustya'' (1992), also based on ''Twenty Years After''
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in the British TV drama documentary ''Civil War: England's Fight for Freedom'' (1997)
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