aged 27 Not long after one of Shakespeare’s career high-points - winning the patronage of the newly-crowned King James I - the death of his youngest brother Edmund at the young age of 27 will ...

including Shakespeare and his fellow King’s Men.” King James I of England. Image courtesy of Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund. William Herbert, the 3rd Earl of Pembroke and his ...

The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...

You never know - you might find evidence of Shakespeare’s footsteps close to home… Craig Henderson, BBC English Regions Queen Anne of Denmark, wife of King James I. Yale Center for British Art ...

This is not the familiar Shakespeare of the time of Elizabeth ... from the masterworks of Jacobean theatre to the King James Bible to the work of John Donne. In government, science and finance ...

For William Shakespeare, writing for two contrasting monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (King James VI of Scotland) meant his works often concerned the political life of the nation.

Shakespeare’s company ... the reign of Elizabeth I and become the King’s Men by the royal decree of King James I when he came to power in 1603. In the royal patent of 1603, the King’s ...

James Stokes, Suffolk editor from the Records of Early English Drama, comments: “It seems entirely reasonable to me to think that Shakespeare’s company might have been present when the King ...

The King’s Men were the premier acting company in the land – the group for whom Shakespeare wrote most of his plays, and indeed had once included the bard himself among them as a part of the ...

In James Shapiro’s book 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Faber and Faber 2015), the author writes: “The long outbreak of plague meant that the King’s Men had to maintain ...