These 10 years mark an extraordinary “Jacobean moment”, argues Shapiro, a “lost” decade sandwiched between the high romance of Elizabeth and the cataclysm of the Civil War.

Much current scholarship in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, including my own, focuses on the actual performance of plays in their own or later periods, regarding the texts that survive as ...

Yet how, without understanding the Jacobean court, are we to understand the world of Jonson, Donne and the late Shakespeare, divine right theory, court scandal and reform, appeals to the ancient ...

It featured music from Jacobean England. The concert, which incorporated historical instrumentation like viols, brass and voice, contained six sections of music from various stages of King James I ...

Wollock, Jeffrey 2011. John Bulwer and the Quest for a Universal Language, 1641–1644. Historiographia Linguistica, Vol. 38, Issue. 1-2, p. 37. Prior, Charles W. A ...

But happily – if that’s the right word to use for this harrowing updated version of the grisly Jacobean tragedy – Whittaker proves more than up to the challenge with an enthrallingly layered ...