Much current scholarship in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, including my own, focuses on the actual performance of plays in their own or later periods, regarding the texts that survive as ...

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.

An Elizabethan or Jacobean playwright, in turn, is natively proficient in early modern English and knows the work, and possibly the man, well. He may have cowritten a play or two with Shakespeare, and ...

Based on the extraordinary true story of Mary Villiers, Sky’s new Jacobean period drama Mary ... Scottish actor Tony Curran plays King James I – you might recognise him from The Calling ...