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Jacobean
Jacobean,in literary terms, applies to writing of the period of James I of England, who succeeded Elizabeth I in 1603 : most commonly used of ‘Jacobean tragedy’. (See Middleton , Tourneur , Webster , revenge tragedy ).
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