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Jacobean age: Quick Facts

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Date 1603 - 1625
Significant Works King James Version
Related Artists William Shakespeare • Francis Bacon • John Donne • Ben Jonson • Inigo Jones • John Fletcher • Francis Beaumont • John Marston • Robert Burton • Thomas Middleton • George Chapman • John Webster • Cornelius Johnson • Isaac Oliver

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Jacobean age
Jacobean “withdrawing room”
The Long Gallery at Aston Hall, Birmingham, Eng., 1618, with paneled walls, tapestries, and intricately molded strapwork plaster ceilings characteristic of the most sumptuous Jacobean interiors.
King James Version of the Bible
Castle Bromwich Hall
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