Shakespeare is England’s most celebrated dramatist and ... writers such as Christopher Marlowe and Greene himself. Drama in Elizabethan theatre shifted from the religious to the secular and ...

Eager to be first in line, the astute James VI of Scotland responded to the question of the English succession with a war of ...

King James of England was rather unremarkable ... religious fervor from being weaponized for political purposes was the main limiting factor in the Elizabethan Church. In short, you could believe ...

the Puritan aversion from the drama was probably decisive. What in fact happened was a separation of drama from the mainstream of the society, and the reduction of the great tensions of Elizabethan ...

Us-versus-them thinking. High-control habits. An obsession with punishment. Some aspects of the MAGA movement are a lot older ...

An ordained Puritan minister, Chapin was my ninth great-grandfather — a colonial transplant, born in England in 1598, who arrived in Boston as a 20-something, then headed west. Since no pictures ...

These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the ...

Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

New England Puritans were hard-pressed by Native American warriors who knew how to fight in forests—and now had flintlock ...