Before Elizabeth I ascended to the British throne, theatre was broadly seen as sinful and crude. The Renaissance, accompanied by the Reformation and philosophical Humanism, elevates the artform from ...

Based on the extraordinary true story of Mary Villiers, Sky’s new Jacobean period drama Mary & George follows a mother who moulded her son to become the all-powerful lover of King James I.

England is plunged into crisis.” Billed as a “unique, global retelling” Whitelock charts the reign of James I and shows how the Jacobean period was one of huge cultural, political and global ...