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 ...

These 10 years mark an extraordinary “Jacobean moment”, argues Shapiro, a “lost” decade sandwiched between the high romance of Elizabeth and the cataclysm of the Civil War.

A production of Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore will appear at Twickenham’s Mary Wallace Theatre from the 19-26 April.

But happily – if that’s the right word to use for this harrowing updated version of the grisly Jacobean tragedy ... the ...