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.

But happily – if that’s the right word to use for this harrowing updated version of the grisly Jacobean tragedy ... wearing a sexy Fifties-style red sheath dress, losing herself in a ...

Yet how, without understanding the Jacobean court, are we to understand the world of Jonson, Donne and the late Shakespeare, divine right theory, court scandal and reform, appeals to the ancient ...