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.

Based on the extraordinary true story of Mary Villiers, Sky’s new Jacobean period drama Mary & George follows a mother who moulded her son to become the all-powerful lover of King James I.

Well, that’s the thing—we haven’t seen this period before, because it’s rarely done. We’ve seen a lot of Jacobean tragedy on the stage in the U.K., but very few in televisual ...

England is plunged into crisis.” Billed as a “unique, global retelling” this charts the reign of James I and shows how the Jacobean period was one of huge cultural, political and global ...