Jacobean

For example, in Jacobean theater, this is done through the vehicle of the fall of the Roman Republic (Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Jonson's Sejanus, Shakespeare's Antony, etc).

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Fortunes of Nigel shows how the introduction of the "Ordinary" eating house in Jacobean London provides an exclusive social space for those with "good clothes and good assurance," in contrast to unrefined pleasures of the tavern.

Walter Scott, Politeness, and Patriotism 2006

This is particularly the case in embroideries of the type of what is commonly known as Jacobean, where the ground fabric is extensively visible, as it is also in that wondrous achievement, the Bayeux tapestry worked in coarse wools upon homespun linen and therefore quite miscalled

Jacobean Embroidery Its Forms and Fillings Including Late Tudor Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam

This does not mean, however, that one is safe in buying anything called Jacobean or Queen Anne or Georgian.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

Chippendale and Sheraton design which, though fresh from the workman's hands, looked older than the originals from which they had been plagiarized; also I recall a Jacobean refectory table, the legs of which appeared to have been eaten half away by time, but which had, in reality, been "antiqued" with a stiff wire brush.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

The "Jacobean" pile high on the hillside is so only in name, for it was built by the architect of Big

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

The canopies on the south side were wrecked by the fall of the spire in 1660, and those over the eight easternmost stalls were then reconstructed in the 'Jacobean' style with

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Cecil Walter Charles Hallett

Whenever I have occasion to go to my "Jacobean" chest of drawers (chests of this type are said really to belong to the end of the seventeenth century) the softness and ease with which the drawers run always gives me

Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

A beautiful eighteenth-century chest of drawers really is almost as easy to manipulate as my "Jacobean" chest.

Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

The chests of modified "Jacobean" type -- belonging, one may suppose, to the early eighteenth century -- still show these grooves for the drawers to run on.

Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899