James Armstrong, Playwright

In the plays of William Shakespeare, the colony of Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) shows up only indirectly. Caliban in T...

Nicholas Rowe's play The Fair Penitent , based loosely on Philip Massinger and Nathan Field's  The Fatal Dowry , contains an excelle...

People sometimes refer to a seductive and sexually promiscuous man as a "Lothario," but where did our culture get this name? Cer...