Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied by the Reformation and philosophical Humanism, elevates the artform from ...

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 ...

The film explores the Elizabethan theater, focusing on Shakespeare's Globe Theater and its significance in London during his ...

In London, during the Elizabethan period, the first dedicated theatres appeared. Most people went to the theatre, from the poor to the very rich. It was the most popular form of entertainment in ...

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference argues, via the work of English playwright William Shakespeare, the importance of Catholicism as a necessary ...