“The heroine of her own fairy tale, she slays her own dragons, domesticating dangerous monsters into playful companions.” So ...

As supreme mirages of dark delight and horror, Goya’s late paintings and etchings were probably inspired by the imagery of gothic novels ... Francisco Goya, María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna, ...

The Duchess of Edinburgh stunned in a deep shade ... Camilla as the event fell on Edward's 61st birthday. Wearing a long dark purple coat, a leading colour psychology expert has revealed the ...

The filming of the romantic thriller ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ will begin in London ... horror drama ‘Saint Maud’ and Sister Clara in the HBO fantasy series ‘His Dark Materials.’ Guillem Morales is known ...

Director Daisy Murphy’s vision is clear. It’s dystopian, cynical, cold, clinical, and dark The Duchess of Malfi (played terrifically by Anoushay Dar) rather controversially has married her steward, ...

The Duchess [of Malfi] marks Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker’s long-awaited return to the West End, playing a woman who defies convention, in a concept that falls short. John Webster’s tragic ...

A proud, sexually confident woman is destroyed by controlling men in John Webster’s horrifying Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi ... of its subtlety and dark magic in this production ...

This overstimulating, overstated adaptation of Jacobean tragedy The Duchess of Malfi struggles to find true dramatic depth. Written by English dramatist John Webster around 1612, the revenge ...

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be able to see ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse for its 10th anniversary season in London. The Jacobean revenge tragedy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Duchess of Malfi is a horror story wrapped in a horror story. There are severed limbs, ghastly ...

It’s to Bagshaw’s credit and the riveting performances of Francesca Mills as the Duchess, Oliver Huband as her beloved Antonio and Shazia Nicholls as her faithful Cariola that good resonates more ...

Read our review of John Webster's tragedy The Duchess of Malfi, now in performances at the Sam Wanamaker ... the title role from Francesca Mills but by an ease towards this dense, dark Jacobean ...