It's a tale as old as time – two lovers unjustly torn apart. But while the story of King Pedro I and his queen Inês De Castro has shades of Romeo and Juliet in its set up, it ends up somewhere ...

Inspired by the 16th century drama by Portuguese playwright Antonio Ferreira, and the epic poem of the same period by the poet and playwright Luis de Camoens, John Clifford's 1989 play re-tells ...

FOR those familiar with James MacMillan’s hard-hitting opera Inés de Castro from its original 1996 Scottish Opera production, this revised version must seem a lot slicker. MacMillan has excised ...

The monarch who was crowned after death is part of Portuguese folklore. As a portrait of Inês by Paula Rego is exhibited, Holly Williams looks at why she has fascinated artists.

Titled Agnes de Castro, its plot had already wandered a fair way from the original, introducing new characters as part of a complex plot that becomes about the perils of female rivalry and jealousy.