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Court Under James 1

In ALL'S WELL.., Shakespeare lavished a great deal of his art on depicting the admirable old aristocratic family (e.g. the portrait of the Countess Rousillon and her friend Lafeu) and when the Countess gives her approval to Helena, as do the other young men of noble houses who surround the King, this could be Shakespeare’s way of making a case for James’ policy of elevating ‘commoners’ from the ranks. It insists it is the king who creates nobility. Bertram’s objection to Helena is precisely because this is a misalliance with his ancient stock. This is how the old nobility felt about James’s elevations from the ranks.

James' favorites were elevated into the highest aristocracy; young men ...

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of Jacobean drama, which is remarkably, court-centered. (The court of Charles I. was even more, and fatally, isolated.) It is now a drama of the City, or of dangerous Great Houses. There is very little of the feel of the countryside such as we find in the earlier drama. London and the court have become the center of the Jacobean dramatic universe. Jacobean dramatists, again and again create dramas in which the characters are claustrophobicaly trapped within the confined space of a dangerous court, or household; as in Webster's THE WHITE DEVIL and THE DUCHESS OF MALFI; or Middleton's THE CHANGELING; WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN; THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY.

Limited, confined, yet highly sophisticated - this is the quality of post-Shakespearean and Jacobean drama. If one compares the worlds of King Lear, Othello Hamlet, Macbeth, we find they have an 'amplitude of action and imagery, of imaginatively inhabited space and time - above all of the world of nature - missing from Webster, Middleton and ...

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Added: 5/19/2011 05:52:29 PM
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