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Article: The Jacobean Syndrome.
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Herb Greer is a contributing editor to the Arts section of The World & I.
The glories of Elizabethan age theater succumbed to Jacobean works ripe with torture, hatred, and revenge. Such human flaws are not lost on a new generation of playwrights.
It sometimes happens that an aesthetic pattern of one age in the arts is repeated, striking similar chords in a later age, sometimes centuries on. This is rare in the theater because writing style and conventions of performance can change radically from one century to the next. But the last half-century has seen the steady growth of such a parallel, most strongly highlighted in British theater but with ...
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