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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...