Although the conspirators in the “Gunpowder Plot” were captured, as noted by Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro in The Year of Lear, their trial and executions carried the haunting reminder of ...

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I n 1606, less than a year after the Gunpowder Plot, Shakespeare was undoubtedly influenced by Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators in writing Macbeth.However, there are also some intriguing ...

The Gunpowder Plot has become a nice, family-friendly party night with bonfires and fireworks and an engraving that's safe enough to be shown on the Tube. But this is not a safe story.

In episode two, Lucy Worsley investigates the Gunpowder Plot and what drove a group of conspirators to this radical act of extremism. On the 5th of November 1605, a group of radical Catholic ...