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 ...

aged 27 Not long after one of Shakespeare’s career high-points - winning the patronage of the newly-crowned King James I - the death of his youngest brother Edmund at the young age of 27 will ...

One year after opening, Perth Museum is to host an exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s King ...

This is not the familiar Shakespeare of the time of Elizabeth ... from the masterworks of Jacobean theatre to the King James Bible to the work of John Donne. In government, science and finance ...

The King’s Men were the premier acting company in the land – the group for whom Shakespeare wrote most of his plays, and indeed had once included the bard himself among them as a part of the ...

For William Shakespeare, writing for two contrasting monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (King James VI of Scotland) meant his works often concerned the political life of the nation.