While HBO has a hit following fortune-seeking 19th-century Americans in “The Gilded Age,” on Sunday GBH Masterpiece unveils its Victorian version of a powerful and wealthy family in “The Forsytes.” ...

With a stellar cast and stunning production value, the newest version of The Count of Monte Cristo brings Dumas' epic story ...

Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas about democracy and theater new?

Historically, the emergence of mythologies and the use of exaggeration have gone hand in hand to explain the limitations in knowledge of the world. Following the discovery of new lands by Europeans, ...