Articles related to "English Renaissance"

Taking a break from 20th-century composers, let's trek backwards a few hundred years to the life of William Byrd.

Apparently film star Nicolas Cage dislikes Shakespeare spoken with an American accent. So, should "Yankee" Shakespeare not even be attempted?

The singers in the British early music choral group Stile Antico may be young, but their music is older than their great-great-grandfathers.

The daily sounds of fifteenth and sixteenth century England are reflected in the music of the time.

The character of Antonio in Twelfth Night has caused disagreement: is he a bluff comrade of Sebastian, or tormented by a homoerotic attraction?

Shakespeare's Friar Lawrence is coloured by prevailing attitudes to Catholicism in Renaissance drama.

Inspector Morse, created by Colin Dexter and played by John Thaw, is a cerebral and isolated figure - as much an enigma as the cases he solves.

Sonnets have been around for a long time, and so have undergone a number of transformations. Regardless of its rigid structure, the sonnet remains a popular poetic form.

Life and times of Ben Jonson, English playwright, poet and actor. Poet Laureate and a contemporary of William Shakespeare.

When Claudia and Jamie Kincaid decide to run away from their predictable home life and hide out in an unlikely spot, they find more adventure than they bargained for.

England is a tiny nation on the island of Great Britain. Yet in spite of its small size and population, it came to rule the world's oceans for nearly two hundred years.