About the Jacobean age......please help?10 points?

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

During the reign of James I there was the beginning of what we regard as modern science, especially through thinkers like Francis Bacon.
Bacon was one of formost intellectuals of the age pushing for more objective inquiry about the world surrounding us rather than relying on scholastic or church based teachings, which were mainly still based in the Medaeval form.
Even though there was the publication of the King James bible there was more of a step towards a questioning of theology in light of these "Natural Philosophers".

This in itself could account for the darker,far more cynical forms of drama that were popular, especially those of a revenge or tragedical theme. Hence the age of tragedy.
The popular dramatists of the time were Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton, Cyril Tourner, John Ford, the writing team of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher and ,of course, the greatest dramatist the world has ever known William Shakespeare who wrote most of his darkest and greatest works in this period.

Not hugely helpful but thats all I could think of from the top of my head. Hope you find it of some use. Cheers.

Answer 2

During this period, painting and sculpture lagged behind architecture in accomplishments because there was no outstanding practitioner of either. The chief of the early Jacobean painters was the talented miniaturist Isaac Oliver. Most of the Jacobean portraitists, like the sculptors, were foreign-born or foreign-influenced—for example, Marcus Gheerhaerts the Younger, Paul van Somer, Cornelius Johnson, and Daniel Mytens. Their efforts were later surpassed by those of the Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck, who worked in England during the reign of Charles I.

In literature, too, many themes and patterns were carried over from the preceding Elizabethan era. Though rich, Jacobean literature is often darkly questioning. William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies were written between about 1601 and 1607. Other Jacobean dramatic writers became preoccupied with the problem of evil: the plays of John Webster, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and George Chapman induce all the terror of tragedy but little of its pity. Comedy was best represented by the acid satire of Ben Jonson and by the varied works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Another feature of drama at this time, however, was the development of the extravagant courtly entertainment known as the masque, which reached its literary peak in the works of Jonson and Inigo Jones. Jonson's comparatively lucid and graceful verse and the writings of his Cavalier successors constituted one of the two main streams of Jacobean poetry. The other poetic stream lay in the intellectual complexity of John Donne and the Metaphysical poets. In prose, Francis Bacon and Robert Burton were among the writers who displayed a new toughness and flexibility of style. The monumental prose achievement of the era was the great King James Version of the Bible, which first appeared in 1611.

Answer 3

The Jacobean Age was when KIng James the First of England and Sixth of Scotland was king. Right after Elizabeth I. Shakespeare was the majot dramatist. Not sure if Christopher Marlowe was dead by then. The King James Version of the Bible was also big.