Editor’s Note: Jonathan Glancey is a British architecture critic and author. After Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in February 1952, the popular composer Ronald Binge changed the name of a ...

The Elizabethan era lasted only a little under a half-century, but this golden era in British history is ripe with material for a good ol’ fashioned mini-series or film. Who could possibly resist some ...

WE know a land of Elizabethan ways — a country of Spenserian speech, Shakespearean people, and of cavaliers and curtsies. It is a land of high hopes and mystic allegiances, where one may stroll ...

The proliferation of purpose-built playhouses in London was to change the face of drama in the later Elizabethan period. Thanks to the reconstruction of the iconic Globe theatre, and the success of ...

DR IAN MORTIMER:'Elizabeth the First's reign is a time of great change in England, especially for the middle classes. Your journey begins at the very heart of the country.' In towns like Stratford, a ...

In her Tuesday column about all things stylish and British, Sarah Mower witnesses the first symptoms of a newfound fervor for the fashion of England’s golden age. I spy the stirrings of a new strain ...

When Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, potential successor to the throne and probable employer of William Shakespeare, became suddenly ill in April 1594 with symptoms including copious and ...

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 ...