{"id":2005,"date":"2015-09-29T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2005"},"modified":"2015-09-29T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T12:58:16","slug":"jacobean-literature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2005","title":{"rendered":"Jacobean Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Jacobean era<\/strong> refers to the period in English and <a title=\"Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotland\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Scottish<\/span><\/u><\/a> history that coincides with the reign of James <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"James I of England\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_I_of_England\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">VI<\/span><\/u><\/a> of Scotland (1567\u20131625), who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the <a title=\"Elizabethan era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabethan_era\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Elizabethan era<\/span><\/u><\/a> and precedes the <a title=\"Caroline era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_era\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Caroline era<\/span><\/u><\/a>, and specifically denotes a style of <a title=\"Jacobean architecture\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacobean_architecture\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">architecture<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Visual arts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Visual_arts\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">visual arts<\/span><\/u><\/a>, <a title=\"Decorative arts\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Decorative_arts\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">decorative arts<\/span><\/u><\/a>, and <a title=\"English literature\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_literature#Jacobean_literature\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">literature<\/span><\/u><\/a> that is predominant of that period.<\/p>\n<p>The practical if not formal unification of England and Scotland under one ruler was an important shift of order for both nations, and would shape their existence to the present day. Another development of crucial significance was the foundation of the first British colonies on the North American continent, at <a title=\"Jamestown, Virginia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamestown,_Virginia\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Jamestown, Virginia<\/span><\/u><\/a> in 1607, in <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Colony of Newfoundland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colony_of_Newfoundland\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Newfoundland<\/span><\/u><\/a> in 1610, and at <a title=\"Plymouth Colony\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plymouth_Colony\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Plymouth Colony<\/span><\/u><\/a> in Massachusetts in 1620, which laid the foundation for future British settlement and the eventual formation of both Canada and the United States of America. In 1609 the <a title=\"Parliament of Scotland\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parliament_of_Scotland\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Parliament of Scotland<\/span><\/u><\/a> began the <a title=\"Plantation of Ulster\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plantation_of_Ulster\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Plantation of Ulster<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most notorious event of James&#8217; reign occurred on 5 November 1605. On that date, a group of English Catholics (the most famous, in later generations, being <a title=\"Guy Fawkes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Fawkes\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Guy Fawkes<\/span><\/u><\/a>) attempted to blow up the King and Parliament in the <a title=\"Palace of Westminster\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palace_of_Westminster\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Palace of Westminster<\/span><\/u><\/a>. However, the <a title=\"Gunpowder Plot\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gunpowder_Plot\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Gunpowder Plot<\/span><\/u><\/a> was exposed and prevented, and the convicted plotters were <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Hanged, drawn, and quartered\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanged,_drawn,_and_quartered\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">hanged, drawn, and quartered<\/span><\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jacobean era refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland (1567\u20131625), who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual<span class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2005","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2005\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}