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 Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I is Stephen Alford's page-turning history of assassination plots, torture, and espionage. Here, he gives us a primer on the dark side of the ...

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 ...

THE term “literature of the age of Elizabeth ” is not confined to the literature produced in the reign of Elizabeth, but is a general name for an era in literature, commencing about the middle of her ...

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 ...

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 ...