aged 27 Not long after one of Shakespeare’s career high-points - winning the patronage of the newly-crowned King James I - the death of his youngest brother Edmund at the young age of 27 will ...

While religious Jews await the Messiah, Christians think he has already visited and await a Second Coming. Previously he came ...

This is not the familiar Shakespeare of the time of Elizabeth ... from the masterworks of Jacobean theatre to the King James Bible to the work of John Donne. In government, science and finance ...

The King’s Men were the premier acting company in the land – the group for whom Shakespeare wrote most of his plays, and indeed had once included the bard himself among them as a part of the ...

One year after opening, Perth Museum is to host an exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s King ...

For William Shakespeare, writing for two contrasting monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (King James VI of Scotland) meant his works often concerned the political life of the nation.

In new two-part series Shakespeare And Us ... the courts of Elizabeth and James I. The image of Gloriana fading before his eyes, and his close proximity to a King, inspired Shakespeare’s ...