London’s Globe Theatre, first built in 1599, served as the Elizabethan era’s artistic and cultural hub. But for every play written by William Shakespeare for the stage, the city’s surrounding Bankside ...

In a deadly cold period known as the Little Ice Age, clever Elizabethan designs kept a magnificent stately home unusually ...

Travel back in time to the dirt, drama and glamour of Elizabethan England: abandon your 21st century perspective and imagine what it was really like to live hundreds of years ago. Plunge back 500 ...

This course will take place in person at 60 Turner Street. The room will be equipped with a HEPA air purifier. Far from being a lone genius, Shakespeare lived and wrote in an artistic and cultural ...

More than 200 peasants, lords and ladies will be roaming about the Shire at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire this weekend - and Amy Johnson will be trying her best to say hidden among the crowds. As ...

Lords, ladies, knights and knaves, break out your corsets and breeches to welcome 16th-century England back to Warren County. The 33rd Ohio Renaissance Festival returns to Renaissance Park in ...

When visualizing Elizabethan England, the mind’s eye tends to summon associated grandeur. The reality is that if you were a ...

After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a light and graceful piece he had originally titled “The Man in the Street” to ...

Although most people have images of courtiers in fine clothes and lavish palaces, the reality is that most Elizabethans are poor. What is it like to live in a dank, smoke-filled hovel in the ...