Edward Hyde and Bulstrode Whitelocke were teenage pals, but ended up in opposite ranks. Minoo Dinshaw’s outstanding book ...

Seven years after Shakespeare's death ... book's preface was written by another of the leading Elizabethan dramatists, Ben Jonson, who paid him a fulsome tribute: "Soul of the age!

When Shakespeare was writing ... evidence of "original pronunciation" comes from contemporary writers such as Ben Jonson, who recorded pronunciations at the time. This is how we know that the ...

Words don’t stop coming and dictionaries continue to add hundreds of newfangled words to their pages and online databases every ...

Ben Jonson, in particular, called his friend and rival ‘gentle’ as part of a habit of mocking the Stratford man’s ambition to be considered a gentleman. When in 1596 Shakespeare acquired a coat of ...

The clue to Shakespeare’s ‘preternatural’ ability to endow his characters with personalities lies in his ‘vitalism’ (or what Hazlitt called ‘gusto’). As the likes of Falstaff are (in a phrase borrowed ...

Proverbs are aphorisms that impart wisdom, advise good, and express deep, meaningful truths about the universe. Proverbs for ...

How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World’s Greatest Writer,” by Darren Freebury-Jones.

The Actors Circle, Scranton, is excitedly counting the days until they present William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” to the ...

Specifically, Cheney argues for the importance of an 'early modern sublime' to the advent of modern authorship in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson. Chapters feature a model of creative ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company is the winner of the Commitment To Craft award in our Great British Brands Awards 2025. The ...