about the Jacobean age......please help?

Question

i have searched about these questions but i did not find what i am looking for
i want to know about the philosophical and intelictual current
and why was it call the age of tragedy?
and who are the major dramatists in this age?
i really need your help
thanks

Answer 1

Major dramatists: Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton, Webster

I hope someone gives a better answer than this, but it was an age characterised by cynicism and the cult of melancholy. Tragedies in this period were much darker, show much less faith in the redemptive power of human nature, and focus much more on the corruption of society than on the hero's tragic flaw. Revenge, machiavellian plots and underhand scheming, betrayal, incest are all big themes.

Answer 2

You are trying to use "jacobian as local magnification" to get the area of a region (domain D) bounded by 4 parabolas. The region is a little diamond between (1,1) and (2,2) in the x,y plane and the surface of interest is defined by h(x,y)= y^2/x. A surface element could be defined and the problem solved by laborious algebraic manipulation to find the surface area of each dydx patch. I'm guessing this problem is given because that approach is really ugly while the Jacobian approach is relatively clean (perhaps even elegant!) Problem is to find the right mapping into a (u,v) plane that will simplify the boundary while maintaining an integrable surface. hmmm, let's see, x=uv and y =v linearizes the x=y^2 and x=y^2/2 boundaries into v=u and v=u/2 but y=x^2 => v=u^2v^2 => v= u^(-1). Oh, hey, It's problem 13 in this book! x=u^(1/3)y^(2/3) and y=u^(2/3)v^(1/3)! I'd have guessed it in just another 10 minutes! The rest is left to the reader! a) show that x^2=vy and y^2 = ux b) show that the region in the (u,v) plane is bounded by lines u=1, u=2 and v=1, v=2 c) compute the area by integrating h(x,y)*Jo

Answer 3

Yeah, well, if you can ask here, why not wikapedia?
Maybe it was the age of tragedy because it was so short (I jest) Perhaps more tragedies were written than comedies during this period. Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, John Webster are three major dramatists. Johnson wrote comedies of humours. Try web searches of your specific questions.