please meet John Webster. A playwright with a deep devotion to gore, he churned out some of the 17th-century’s most lurid tragedies and there was nothing — books, a helmet, a tennis racket ...

John Webster was born in the suggestively named ... Henry Fitzgeffrey's barbed description of "crabbed Websterio, the playwright-cartwright in the satirical poem Notes from Blackfriars.

A brief insight into the life of playwright John Webster, author of the Duchess of Malfi. A performance of music to accompany the Dance of the Madmen in The Duchess of Malfi ...

After igniting Tennessee Williams’s 'Summer and Smoke' with intense heat, director Rebecca Frecknall serves up Webster’s tale of revenge, very cold. “Why should I be closed up?” asks Lydia ...

Across two nights, the BBC celebrates Jacobean theatre with a brand-new documentary presented by Professor James Shapiro, exploring the life, times and inspiration of playwright John Webster ...

Dr James Shapiro talks to the actress about her title role in John Webster's play. BBC Two’s The Mysterious Mr Webster: BBC Arts at the Globe tells the life story of playwright John Webster and ...

John Webster's life was shadowy, and his plays darkly imagined - it was once said that he 'saw the skull beneath the skin'. But his masterpiece The Duchess of Malfi is one of the jewels of the ...

Little Shop of Horrors), so unless they had uncovered a hitherto secret side to Jacobean playwright John Webster, this show was going to be a daring change of tack. And so it proves. Jonathan ...

Many first-rate actresses have played John Webster’s tragic Jacobean heroine – destroyed by her mad brothers for marrying her steward – and last night Francesca Mills joined their ranks.