A new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.

“Don’t put your co-artistic director on the stage, Mrs Harvey,” as Noel Coward once (almost) sang.

The Duke of Edinburgh has said the outpouring of support following the death of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, was “overwhelming”. Edward deputised for the King as Lord High ...

Both of the RSC’s major new productions begin with funereal solemnity: Hamlet (in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) starts with a burial at sea; Edward II (in the Swan Theatre) opens with the dead ...