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.

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 ...

We’re introduced to Erskine as he makes a characteristically grand entrance to a revival of a Jacobean tragedy, and is visibly appalled as he endures the production’s glaring (in his opinion ...

Maria Aberg’s production mutates John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy into a nightmare world of frenetic, orgiastic disco parties and flick-knife mayhem, where characters are propelled by ruthless and ...