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Jacobean 1. History characteristic of or relating to James I (1566--1625) of England or to the period of his rule (1603--25) 2. denoting, relating to, or having the style of architecture used in England during this period, characterized by a combination of late Gothic and Palladian motifs www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk www.probertencyclopaedia.com/T8.HTM How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| By making explicit what is submerged in published texts, this poem offers a useful counter-example to Orgel's claim that Jacobeans found it impossible "to acknowledge sodomy as an English vice" (46-48). Wills argues that England's obsession with necromancy made the second half of Macbeth (Hecate's jazzy witch songs) as interesting to the Jacobeans as the first half is to us. His dances and variations, which anticipate the sweeping masterpieces of the later Elizabethans and early Jacobeans, remain popular today among devotees of Renaissance music; indeed, Ward lists nine recordings of Johnson's irresistible "Flat Pavan. |
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