The Jacobean era is reframed as a definitive moment in which the civil self-presentation of the elite increasingly became implicated in the imperial. The tastes and social lives of statesmen ...
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 ...
He was a controversial figure in the Jacobean era who rose from minor nobility to become one of the favourites of James I, who was James VI in Scotland. The nature of their relationship has been ...
These two sermons emerge from the crises of controversy, censorship, and identity that converged in the late Jacobean period, and mark Donne's clearest professional interventions in the public debate ...
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 ...
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.