The Ugly Duchess by Quentin Matsys is an influential painting that has many theories surrounding its intention and meaning.

We should seek to live simply, to take only what we need and share what we have, to see ourselves in kinship with all of creation.

The differences between John Webster’s 17th-century revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi and Zinnie Harris’ sparkily rewritten The Duchess (of Malfi) are apparent even before the lights come up.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jodie Whittaker’s Duchess of Malfi strides on to the stage in a scarlet cocktail dress and confidently ...

The recently widowed Duchess falls in love with her steward, Antonio. Her brothers, eager to keep her under their control, warn her not to remarry. But some things are worth fighting – and lying ...

Based on John Webster’s Jacobean revenge tragedy, the Duchess of Malfi, this latest adaptation ... works and does manage to set up the themes of class, misogyny and male violence in a way ...

A proud, sexually confident woman is destroyed by controlling men in John Webster’s horrifying Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi ... her play emphasises themes of care, ultimately suggesting ...

Heading a sharply uneven cast, Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker gives the haughty Duchess an air of alienating privilege and towering pride that blinds her to danger but also allows her to withstan ...

The themes are always the same ... A laugh: ‘Of wine, babe!’ The Duchess (of Malfi) starring Jodie Whittaker runs at the Trafalgar Theatre until 20 December. Tickets are on sale now from ...

Jodie also spoke about her upcoming theatre return in The Duchess, an updated version of John Webster's 17th-century revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi ... I think those themes are so relevant ...

Casting is now complete for the upcoming production of The Duchess (of Malfi). As previously reported, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) will return to the London stage in Zinnie Harris’ ...

I can see it’s a way of opening a centuries-old tragedy up to a new audience, but the fact of the matter is that The Duchess of Malfi is an incredibly weird play and making it superficially more ...