From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

French drama of the 17th century, particularly that of Molière and Racine was highly regular ; whereas the English dramatists writing for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage were largely unaware of these strictures.

* At least two major dramatists have written tragedies about Catilina: Ben Jonson, the English Jacobean playwright, wrote Catiline His Conspiracy in 1611 ; Catiline was the first play by the Norwegian ' father of modern drama ' Henrik Ibsen, written in 1850.

He also appears as a character in John Webster's Jacobean revenge drama The White Devil ( 1612 ).

( Jacobean drama studies ; 72 ).

In addition, unlike many writers and producers of academic drama in the Jacobean era, Goffe was not contemptuous of popular theater, and included many scenes and lines that were influenced by Hamlet and Antonio's Revenge in his tragedy, Orestes.

He spent three months studying Jacobean drama at the British American Drama Academy based in Oxford, U. K.

Zeal-of-the-land Busy is Jonson's second foray, after The Alchemists Tribulation and Ananais, into a field of satire common in Jacobean drama: satire against Puritans.

The Mermaid Series was a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama.

* The play is discussed, as is Jacobean drama more generally, in the penultimate episode of Boardwalk Empire Season Two during a flashback to Jimmy Darmody's days at Princeton University.

In time the practice took on a professional aspect and companies of child actors would play an important role in the development of drama through the Elizabethan era and into the Jacobean and Caroline periods that followed.

He continued to reign in all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean era after him, until his death in 1625 at the age of 58.

A Jacobean inscription in the 1616 Jonson folio lists him playing the role of Corbaccio in Volpone ; since the same list includes Nathan Field, who did not join the King's Men until 1616, it seems that Heminges continued to act, at least intermittently, into his fifties.

They stole freely from the contemporary French and Spanish stage, from English Jacobean and Caroline plays, and even from Greek and Roman classical comedies, and combined the looted plotlines in adventurous ways.

John Webster ( c. 1580 – c. 1634 ) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage.

* Valentinian ( play ), a Jacobean era stage play

City comedy, also called Citizen Comedy, is a common genre of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline comedy on the London stage from the last years of the 16th century to the closing of the theaters in 1642.

Whether the play was ever produced in the Elizabethan / Jacobean age is not known, but it is obvious by the nature of the revisions and the mention of the actor Thomas Goodale in 3. 1 that it was written for the public stage.

Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho, is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, printed in 1605.

A Yorkshire Tragedy is an early Jacobean era stage play, a domestic tragedy printed in 1608.

Even though the Jacobean stage had flirted with merchant and artisan plays in the past ( with, for example, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Heywood ), The London Merchant was a significant change in theatre, and in tragedy in particular.

* Wild Goose Chase, late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first published in 1652

* The Coxcomb, an early Jacobean era stage play

Women were almost exclusively banned from appearing as actresses on the stage until approximately 1660 and in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, troupes appeared that were composed entirely of boy players.

It is still unclear if Seneca's plays were performed or recited during Roman times ; at any rate, Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights staged them, as it were, with a vengeance, in plays full of gruesome and often darkly comic violence.

Though religious violence was comparatively uncommon in Jacobean England, the memory of such violence was fresh enough to make marginal believers or outsiders potential sources of anxiety or threat.

Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre ( for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Webster's The White Devil ) to today's splatter films.

The layout of the set broadly follows the pattern of Byrd's 1589 set, being laid out in sections for three, four, five and six parts like its predecessor and embracing an even wider miscellany of styles ( perhaps reflecting the influence of another Jacobean publication, Michael East's Third Set of Books ( 1610 ).

The Puritan movement of Jacobean times became distinctive by adaptation and compromise, with the emergence of " semi-separatism ", " moderate puritanism ", yo soy chingon

Along with James, she tended to be dismissed by a historical tradition, beginning with the anti-Stuart historians of the mid-17th century, which saw in the self-indulgence and vanity of the Jacobean court the origins of the English civil war.

The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon has several characters seeing a play called ' The Courier's Tragedy ' by the fictitious Jacobean playwright Richard Wharfinger.

Other significant houses in the village include Keys Hill House, built to the east of Norwich Road around 1890 by an important Norwich architect, Edward Boardman, as a substantial country house in Jacobean style.

English Heritage archaeologists uncover the substantial remains of the old Jacobean House which was destroyed in 1788 and replaced by two wing buildings positioned either side of the Villa designed by the architect John White

With its dramatic symmetrical front, flanked by two great yew hedges, it is a fine example of a Jacobean brick-built manor house, and was formerly the home of the young Anne Boleyn, later to become Henry VIII's second wife.

An existing Jacobean house was entirely rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham ( 1693 – 1750 ), and then reduced to the status of a mere wing by the immense scale of the new great addition made by his son the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established at Wentworth Woodhouse an important Whig powerhouse.

Art Made Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Dramatic Censorship.

Much of Chester's architecture dates from the Victorian era, many of the buildings being modelled on the Jacobean half-timbered style and designed by John Douglas, who was employed by the Duke as his principal architect.

Jacobethan is the style designation coined in 1933 by John Betjeman to describe the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance ( 1550 – 1625 ), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.

Timothy Mowl asserts in The Elizabethan and Jacobean Style ( 2001 ) that the ' Jacobethan ' style represents the last outpouring of an authentically native genius that was stifled by slavish adherence to European baroque taste.

Casting about for a follow-up, Nash extended the range of antiquarian interests forward in time with his next series of lithographs The Mansions of England in the Olden Time 1839 – 1849, which accurately illustrated Tudor and Jacobean great houses, interiors as well as exteriors, made lively with furnishings and peopled by inhabitants in ruffs and farthingales, the quintessence of " Merrie Olde England ".

Opened by the Carlisle Corporation in 1893, the original building is a converted Jacobean mansion, with extensions added when it was converted.

His enormous treatise is considered " delightful " by critics ; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of " black bile ," according to the humor theory fashionable at the time.

It is listed at grade I, and was considered by Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire.

The shell keep contains a 12th century gate tower and later residential accommodation in an H plan comprising a 13th century three storey north range, and a 17th century Jacobean three storey south range linked by an oak timbered Great Hall of the 15th century

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.