Historical accuracy is often questioned in dramas such as Gunpowder, so it is worth asking first whether such horrors actually happened at all. The penalty (crushing to death) suffered by the ...

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A 500-year-old castle-sized Jacobean manor house, spanning 35,376 square feet, in England was listed last week for £9 million (US$12.4 million). Dubbed Yarnton Manor, the nearly 30-acre estate is ...

Jacobean London can feel like a foreign place — so alien from the city we know today that it's hard to picture it in the mind's eye. Yet through the plays from the time, we can glimpse back into that ...

Award-winning writer Lucy Jago got the idea for her debut novel A Net for Small Fishes from a brief mention in a book from the London Library. It took her on a journey of discovery, not just around ...

One of the biggest positives of the Kindle e-reader, or for that matter all e-readers out there, is their ability to carry along almost an entire library with you. Any attempt to carry that many ...

This new, critical three-part essay from world-renowned American scholar James Shapiro re-examines the work of the world’s greatest playwright during the troubled first decade of the reign of King ...

Dr Gemma’s gruesome dinner party revenge brought the hit drama to an end after five episodes filled with bloody-funny shifts in tone and pace. It’s a series that owes a lot to five-act Jacobean dramas ...

Boston Manor House in Brentford, which dates back 400 years, has received a six-year restoration costing £6m A Jacobean manor house that has been home to a primary school, an institute for training ...

The Duchess of Malfi is a gothic tale of forbidden love, betrayal and murder, and the most frequently performed play of the English Renaissance not written by Shakespeare. This weekend, in BBC Arts at ...

The execution of the eight surviving conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot. Wellcome Images via Wikimedia , CC BY-SA Historical accuracy is often questioned in dramas such as Gunpowder, so it is worth ...