Few plays are better suited to the crepuscular Sam Wanamaker Playhouse than John Webster’s Jacobean torture-fest The Duchess of Malfi: rather like the candlelit auditorium, the play itself feels ...

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 ...

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.