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Jacobean period (1603-1625)- Marili Põlluaas - Coggle Diagram
Jacobean period (1603-1625)- Marili Põlluaas
Society
society — as a pyramid
hierarchical
male and female roles
more children were able to attend school
boys and girls
HIgh culture
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest
Ben Jonson (dramatist, poet)
plays like Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair and Epicone
year following the Queen Elizabethian era
James I
king of Scotland (age 1)
throne of England after Queen Elizabeth I death
son of Mary, Queen of Scots,
well-educated
1604, English translation of the bible
The Authorised King James Bible
1605- blowing up the Houses of Parliament (failed)
nation’s extreme civil unrest
Religion
between the Protestants and the Catholics
ReligiousTurmoil
(existed before James I and Queen Elizabeth I)
everything was controlled by God
Architecture
borrowed from the Elizabethan era
the use of columns
Witchcrafrt
majority believed
influenced by legends
black magic
mainly women
activity of witchcraft -> hunted down and killed
first British colonies in America
trade and financial potential in the New World
rise of tobacco use
a severe economic depression
