The Shakespeare Club recently heard a report by Mary Croxton on banned books Croxton noted that attempts to restrict what ...

The Stratford Festival is welcoming five new participants to the Langham Directors’ Workshop for the 2025 season. Learn more ...

With his body language hinting that he’s getting one vision after another, soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus tells struggling Renaissance playwright Nick Bottom about a successful play he believes he can ...

Shakespeare’s clown Feste is transformed into womanising dancer Jester (Lewellyn Jamal), and the puritan steward Malvolio becomes the amusingly buttoned-down manager Rev (Cameron Bernard Jones), alert ...

When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.

The historian – once dubbed ‘the rudest man in Britain’ – on cancel culture, free speech and why he refuses to ‘shut up’ ...

“Holy Willie’s Prayer is the great expression of his frustration with Puritans ... If England had Shakespeare, Scotland had Burns. Today it’s uncomfortable to consider, but this allowed ...

The (homo)eroticism of Shakespeare’s sonnets illuminating a modern gay love ... The target is the life-negating, body-denying church but also the gloating mean-spirited puritans who regarded AIDS as a ...

Yet in the Elizabethan age, the authorities considered ... Advanced Protestantism made little headway, although the Puritan John Penry of Breconshire, a bitter opponent of bishops, was hanged ...

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Macbeth, William Shakespeare’s iconic play, is being reimagined as an interactive video game with a neo-noir vibe — and it’s ...