Jacobean tragedy
Jacobean tragedy,a term used for a cluster of sombre dramatic works dating from the reign of James I (1603–25). Although most of Shakespeare's own mature tragedies belong to this period, the term usually refers to non-Shakespearian works, of which the principal examples are The Revenger's Tragedy (1607, by Tourneur or Middleton), John Webster's The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (1613), Middleton's The Changeling (with Rowley, 1622) and Women Beware Women (1627); Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1633), which may be post-Jacobean, is usually included. Once overshadowed by Shakespeare, these works were redeemed by the critical essays of T. S. Eliot in the 1920s.
Chris Baldick
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