San Antonio College Library

"Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture - not the friendly unassuming architecture of the vernacular but the uniquely strange and exciting buildings put up by the great and powerful, ranging from huge houses to gem-like pavilions and lodges designed for feasting and hunting - is a phenomenon as remarkable as the literature which accompanied it, the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Marlow, Jonson, Campion and others. Forty years after adventuring...

From the accession of Elizabeth in 1558 to James I's death in 1625, a delayed Renaissance swept England, and prevaded the domestic architecture and interiors of the day. This book shows how classical detail was fused with a Tudor venacular to create a style of enduring popularity.