James Armstrong, Playwright

I've always admired the poetry of Sir Philip Sidney, though his great work of literary and dramatic criticism, The Defense of Poesy , s...

I recently acquired the DVD to Kenneth Branagh's film version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing . I was rather taken aback by ...

Yesterday, I promised a blog post about Christopher Marlowe, the first truly great playwright of the Elizabethan stage. Marlowe was born...

As the middle ages in England came to a close, the Plantagenet dynasty split into two factions: the House of Lancaster and the House of York...

It is commonly accepted that in Elizabethan theatres black curtains indicated the playing of tragedies. One line in the anonymous play A War...

One of those things that will make teenagers giggle when they learn about Shakespeare is the common use of the term "die" in Eliza...