27 DECEMBER

Austenland – is there such a place? If so, it’s to be found in drawing rooms and parlours, not in sweeping vistas. So it’s appropriate that the Hampshire village of Chawton, Jane Austen’s home for the

Playwright of dazzling wit and complex ideas Sir ...

If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

As Dame Judi Dench explores a connection to her hero William Shakespeare, she talks love, death, forgiveness and controlling her temper

John Marlowe, a shoemaker from Canterbury, died in 1605. His son Christopher had failed to follow him into the trade, choosing the more unreliable life of playwright, poet and jobbing spy. It had been