While their imagined relationship owes something to that between Mephistopheles and Faustus, the play’s intimate prose could hardly be further from Marlowe’s hyperbolic flash and thunder. Marlowe has ...

A 'Star Trek' icon talks about watching Judy Garland on stage as a kid. The actors reunited, and Garland was nominated for an ...

Do Oscar voters covet a good cry? At a moment when movies struggle to capture serious awards attention, Hamnet is being lauded by critics for its emotional clout, yet also critiqued for its limited ...

A seven-piece band breathes new life into the music of Guns N’ Roses, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Queen ...

In late 1952, builders working in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, removed two boards from under an old gas fire and threw them into a skip. The student living in the room, Peter ...

Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery By John Mullan In 1952, during building work at Corpus Christi College, ...

Do you know the one about the Jewish guy and the Muslim Turk? They gang up on this Christian friar and strangle him. Then they take him into the street and prop him up on a staff, as if he were alive ...

The surgeon Henry Marsh picks 'the saviour of mothers' Dr Semmelweis Anneka Rice picks the largely forgotten Jane Morris, muse to Rossetti and wife of William Morris Ekow Eshun on the first openly gay ...

What does 'Last 10' mean? The 'Last 10' information shows this horse's finishing position in its last 10 races. With the most recent on the right. An 'x' signifies a spell and 0 means the horse ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Between 1357 and 1405 Timur the Lame conquered most of the Islamic world and radically transformed the history ...

Tamburlaine Organic Wines has created the Lizard Drinking brand to be packaged in Packamama’s “eco-flat” bottles. Credit: Packamama Packaging technology business Packamama has opened its second ...

The owner of a popular Hunter Valley winery has revealed how he thinks a ferocious blaze started in the function centre, as he scrambled to ensure bookings are accommodated elsewhere. More than 20 ...