Jean took a horse in for a period after Elizabeth (8)
I believe the answer is:
jacobean
'a period after elizabeth' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'jean took a horse in' is the wordplay.
'took' becomes 'a' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a horse' becomes 'cob' (cob is a kind of horse).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a'+'cob'='acob'
'jean' going around 'acob' is 'JACOBEAN'.
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for jacobean that I've seen before include "of 17th century design" , "From the time of James I" , "Of period when James I reigned" , "Relating to James I's era" , "Early Seventeenth-century" .)