Justin Newland's novels blend thrilling historical adventure with elements of magical realism and speculative fiction.

Irvin Matus The new reading room of the Folger Shakespeare Library is dominated by a huge painting of the sort that Oscar Wilde's Lady Bracknell migh ...

“We definitely have a strong literary theme running ... Jr.,” Feb. 8-9 and 15-16, presented by actors ages 13-18. Two Elizabethan-era brothers try to write the first-eve musical.

Hamnet' Fans of historical literary fiction will be delighted ... the death of a child and paints an exquisite picture of Elizabethan-era village life. If the Chloé Zhao-led film brings to ...

The Elizabethan period was a busy time ... Alice: There was lots of new literature written during this period. A lot were history books, but there were also ones written about travel and discovery.

Hesse Phillips is the author of the debut novel, “Lightborne,” about the final days of Elizabethan playwright ... plenty of plays and literature about the theatre. Researching queer history ...

Anglo-Gaelic and North American whisky became the foremost distilled spirit in the English-speaking world. Since then, the ...

Observant members of the Australian literary world have been amazed by the Times Literary Supplement of September 10, 2010. I ...

She, not he, introduces herself (“I’m a literary agent ... in theatres and other pits of revelry, in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England? We may be baffled by a public that rejoiced in ...

Games, gowns, Latin and the birch (or their modern equivalents: PE, blazers, applied maths and permanent exclusion) all seem to be of an era long past the Elizabethan age with which Nicholas Orme ends ...

In the long history of Western culture, it is given to very few to have an entire era named after them. Socrates sits within Antiquity, Leonardo da Vinci within the Renaissance; even Shakespeare has ...

In war and diplomacy, oratory and literature, above all in his delineation ... an action that he was later to regret. If he was an Elizabethan in deed and spirit, he was implacably Victorian ...