jacobean
Speech parts
1. jacobean - Noun
2. jacobean - Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Jacobian
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Jacobean writers
Historian Alan Stewart suggests that many of the phenomena now seen as peculiarly Jacobean can be identified more closely with Anne's patronage than with James, who "fell asleep during some of England's most celebrated plays".
During this period and into the Jacobean era that followed, the English theatre reached its highest peaks.
He was accepted to Columbia University in New York and specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, graduating with an M.A. in 1962.
In England, Elizabethan and Jacobean plays frequently included music, Lord 2003, p. 41 and short musical plays began to be included in an evenings' dramatic entertainments.
Strictly speaking, English Renaissance theatre may be said to encompass Elizabethan theatre from 1562 to 1603, Jacobean theatre from 1603 to 1625 and Caroline theatre from 1625 to 1642.