Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The two hotshot Elizabethans were like the rock ‘n’ roll stars of their day. The jewel box Wyndham’s Theatre, the much sought ...

The son of a glove maker and municipal politician from Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare seems to have risen from modest means to become one of history’s greatest writers, a peerless poet and ...

Was Christopher Marlowe a rebel, a genius, or a heretic ahead of his time?

Hesse Phillips is the author of the debut novel, “Lightborne,” about the final days of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe. Raised in Pennsylvania and now living in Spain, they have an ...

The new book "Dark Renaissance" is a true story of spies, counterfeiters, betrayal and murder. It's about the short life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare's greatest rival. And the ...

The English poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as his frenemy William Shakespeare. Yet unless you majored in English in college, it is quite possible you never ...