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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
... In literary terms, applies to writing of the period of James I of England, who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603 : most commonly used of ‘Jacobean tragedy’. See Middleton, Thomas ; Tourneur, Cyril ; Webster, John ; revenge tragedy...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
... In literary terms, applies to writing of the period of James I of England, who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603 : most commonly used of ‘Jacobean tragedy’. See Middleton, Thomas ; Tourneur, Cyril ; Webster, John ; revenge tragedy...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
... Architecture or furniture that resembles objects or buildings produced during the reign of James I of England, normally associated with dark...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
... The style of architecture, interior decoration, and furniture which flourished in England during the reign of James I ( 1603–25 ); it was characterized by the blending of classical features such as the Orders with strapwork and other motifs from northern...
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Catherine Soanes
Dictionary Plus Society and Culture
...Jacobean Relating to the characteristic artistic and literary styles of the reign of James I of England, Ireland, and Scotland ( 1603–25 ). Much Jacobean architecture incorporated a combination of classical and Gothic elements, but the buildings of Inigo Jones marked a more purely classical style. In literature, drama was prominent, with tragedies by Shakespeare, John Webster, and others, and comedies by Ben Jonson. Catherine...
Jacobean ([Theatre]) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Reference and Allusion (3 ed.)
... [Theatre] An adjective describing the plays written during the reign of James I of England ( 1603–25 ). The revenge tragedies of this period, such as Webster's The White Devil ( 1612 ) and The Duchess of Malfi ( 1623 ) and Middleton's The Changeling ( 1622 ), typically feature scenes of carnage and mutilation. > Used to suggest a situation involving murder, plotting, and revenge The ensuing drama—with more corpses piled up centre stage than a Jacobean revenge tragedy—appeared to reach crisis proportions with the resignation of Scottish Opera's...
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Patrick Goode
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
... The term refers to the ‘prodigy houses’ built during the reign of James I ( 1603–25 ). The paradigm is Audley End ( c .1603–16 ), which shows the style’s combination of striking mass, varied silhouette, and profuse decoration, with little interest in the plan. It anticipated Artisan Mannerism . Patrick...
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World Encyclopedia
... (Lat. Jacobus , ‘James’) Artistic styles during the reign ( 1603–25 ) of James I . The major literary form was drama, such as the works of Webster and the late plays of Shakespeare . Metaphysical poetry , such as the work of John Donne , was also a feature of the age. In architecture, the major achievement was the work of Inigo Jones...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)
... [ jakŏ- bee -an ] Belonging to the period 1603–25 , when James VI of Scotland reigned as King James I of England. The term is formed from the Latin equivalent of his name: Jacobus . As a literary period it marks a high point of English drama, including the later plays of Shakespeare (notably Macbeth , King Lear , Othello , Antony and Cleopatra , and The Tempest ), the masques and major plays of Ben Jonson , and significant works by several other playwrights, notably John Webster ’s The Duchess of Malfi ( 1623 ). In non-dramatic poetry,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
...the continuing use of mullioned and transomed windows, and the late-medieval E - and H -plans were also used. Examples of Jacobean architecture are Hatfield House, Herts. ( 1607–12 ), Bramshill, Surrey ( 1605–12 ), and Audley End, Essex ( 1603–16 ). However, Inigo Jones ’s contributions also took place in the reigns of James I & VI and Charles I, but his sophisticated Palladian style is not described as ‘Jacobean’. There was a Jacobean Revival in C19, notably in country-houses, and it was also mixed with the Queen-Anne style to produce hybrids (e.g. R.N....
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Chris Baldick
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
... tragedy , a term used for a cluster of sombre dramatic works dating from the reign of James I ( 1603–25 ). Although most of Shakespeare’s own mature tragedies belong to this period, the term usually refers to non-Shakespearian works, of which the principal examples are The Revenger’s Tragedy ( 1607 , by Tourneur or Middleton ) , John Webster ’s The White Devil ( 1612 ) and The Duchess of Malfi ( 1613 ), Middleton’s The Changeling (with Rowley, 1622 ) and Women Beware Women ( 1627 ); Ford ’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore ( 1633 ), which may...
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The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
...Calloway : The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details, from 1485 to the Present (New York, 1991/ R 2005) [contains chapter on Jacobean style] T. Mowl : Elizabethan & Jacobean Style (London, 1993/ R 2001) M. Airs : The Tudor & Jacobean Country House: A Building History (Stroud, 1995) A. Wells-Cole : Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558–1625 (New Haven,...
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The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.)
...minor Jacobean . These originated in the 1610 discovery by New English adventurers of crown title to lands in north Wexford. In 1618 , following government intervention and local objections, regrants were made to native freeholders with over 100 acres, with the smaller freeholders becoming leaseholders. One‐quarter of the land went to undertakers, mostly servitors in the Dublin government. Discovery and regrant were similiarly used in Leitrim, Longford, and parts of King's and Queen's Counties (Laois and Offaly) in 1619–20 . These plantations,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture (4 ed.)
... Jacobean England was the celebrated garden of Pratolino, outside Florence, filtered through French gardens such as those at Fontainebleau and St Germain-en-Laye, and the key figure was the Huguenot Salomon de Caus , who knew the gardens of the Villa d’Este , Tivoli, and Frascati, and was an expert on hydraulics and automata . The Queen appointed de Caus to design the gardens of her London home, Somerset House, which contained a huge grotto-fountain alluding to Mount Parnassus. Jacobean gardens retained certain earlier aspects (e.g. the hortus...
theatres, Elizabethan and Jacobean Reference library
Gabriel Egan and Julian Bowsher
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...Elizabethan and Jacobean . The Romans built amphitheatres in Britain during their occupation, but we know of no purpose-built theatres erected between their departure and the construction of the open-air galleries and stage of the Red Lion in Stepney in 1567 . More substantial than the Red Lion were James Burbage ’s Theatre in Shoreditch built in 1576 and Henry Lanham’s nearby Curtain built in 1577 , both of which echoed the circular shape of the Roman amphitheatres. Also in 1576 Richard Farrant began to use the Upper Frater of the ...
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Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
...Elizabethan and Jacobean . Trollope chose to root An Autobiography in an ‘unhappy’ childhood and a self-castigating account of his seven-year wilderness as postal clerk until, despairing and maligned, he arrived in Banagher, where his energies immediately became focused and appreciated. Yet sthat novelistic epiphany, while emotionally accurate, scarcely indicates the early stirrings of his antiquarian interest in drama (English literature was not then studied academically). Behind the dejection of his childhood, one sees him in his father's ‘old...
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Gabriel Egan
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...profession, Elizabethan and Jacobean . The Elizabethan word for an actor was ‘player’ and there were three classes: the sharer, the hired man, and the apprentice. The nucleus of the company was the sharers, typically between four and ten men, who were named on the patent which gave them the authority to perform and which identified their aristocratic patron. The sharers owned the capital of the company, its playbooks and costumes, in common and shared the profits earned. All other actors were the employees of the sharers. The sharers were not necessarily...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Eritrean , Ghanaian, Himalayan, Malayan, Tigrayan • Actaeon , Aegean, aeon ( US eon), Augean, Behan, Cadmean, Caribbean, Carolean, Chaldean, Cyclopean, empyrean, epicurean, European, Fijian, Galilean, Hasmonean, Hebridean, Herculean, Ian, Jacobean, Kampuchean, Laodicean, lien, Linnaean ( US Linnean), Maccabean, Mandaean ( US Mandean), Medicean, monogenean, Nabataean ( US Nabatean), Orphean, paean, paeon, pean, peon, Periclean, piscean, plebeian, Pyrenean, Pythagorean, Sabaean, Sadducean, Sisyphean, skean, Tanzanian, Tennesseean, Terpsichorean,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... of or relating to the reign ( 1603–25 ) of James I of England; (of furniture) in the style prevalent during the reign of James I, especially being the colour of dark...
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...Jacobean , Jacobin , Jacobite . These adjective and noun forms, ultimately from Latin Jacobus ‘James’, have been used as sobriquets of several different groups of people or things. Jacobean is used as adjective and noun with reference to the reign ( 1603–25 ) or times of James I, and, in particular, to an architectural style which prevailed in England in the early part of the 17c. The commonest use of Jacobins (the name earlier given in France to Dominican friars) is for the group of revolutionaries formed in Paris in 1789 and so named because they...
