The English playwright and poet Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is best known for his satiric comedies. An immensely learned man with an irascible and domineering personality, he was, next to Shakespeare, the greatest dramatic genius of the English Renaissance. B...

By turns turbulent and weighty, scatological and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...

By turns turbulent and weighty, scatalogical and refined, boisterous and delicate, Ben Jonson's works have always excited strong reactions among his readers and his playgoing audiences, just as his personality strongly impressed or offended his contempor...

Famous in the Sixties for her fashion designs in collaboration with her then husband Ossie Clark, Celia Birtwell's prints are back on the catwalk. Here she tells Lydia Slater of their extraordinary marriage and how she's helping with a V&A retrospective of his work...

THE truest compliment ever paid to Celia johnson was in a letter from her husband Peter Fleming (brother of lan), written while he was on active service in 1942. She was, he said, "the very sprocket-piston of Old England at War". And so, in...