But happily – if that’s the right word to use for this harrowing updated version of the grisly Jacobean tragedy – Whittaker proves more than up to the challenge with an enthrallingly layered ...

Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied ...

Much current scholarship in the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, including my own, focuses on the actual performance of plays in their own or later periods, regarding the texts that survive as ...

These 10 years mark an extraordinary “Jacobean moment”, argues Shapiro, a “lost” decade sandwiched between the high romance of Elizabeth and the cataclysm of the Civil War.

Filmed in Hungary and the UK and told through dramatic reconstruction, this epic series plays out as a Jacobean tragedy detailing the king’s lifelong obsession to hunt down and kill those ...

the major obstacle in attempting to reconstruct the artificial illumination of the early drama is that nearly every light could be and was confused with others. Torches and tapers were sometimes ...