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The former cabinet minister said personal attacks on his ex-wife were ‘incredibly hurtful’

In Shakespeare’s time, about a quarter of all plays were collaboratively written by two or more dramatists. Christopher Marlowe’s classic work Doctor Faustus was first performed in the 1580s or early 1590s but only published in 1604, 11 years after his death. The dramatists Samuel Rowley and William Bird were…

A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

A VICTORIAN hotel located in a famous Highlands town where Macbeth, King of Scots died in battle, has gone up for sale ...

Grant Shapps is running. The Tory MP has held what seems like every ministerial post possible and is famous in Westminster for his command of spreadsheets and data – in other words, for tracking the views and intentions of his fellow Tory MPs. He is ready for the battle ahead.

Company’s artistic director David Hallberg says he was ‘shocked’ by critic’s review and that critique of dancers’ bodies is ‘not acceptable’

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Head of English at a Lincolnshire secondary school discusses the crisis in education and her mission to make literature live for a new generation

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?