The theories behind the elusive Ur-Hamlet and its influence on Shakespeare’s tragedy, from disputed authorship to clues ...

William Shakespeare’s child, Hamnet, died of unknown causes at age 11. The movie ‘Hamnet’ reimagines how the tragedy affected ...

Hamnet's ending offers a lot to unpack. Here's our breakdown of the movie's events and what they mean.

Hamlet protests in response that he isn’t acting. Dressing in black and crying all the time are the kinds of things anyone ...

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Ato Blankson-Wood will star as the aggrieved prince in a modern-dress production directed by Kenny Leon. By Michael Paulson Winter has just begun in ...

Based on a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, director Chloé Zhao's film presupposes that “Hamlet” was not a reworking of the Norse legend of Amleth but rather a father processing his grief over the loss ...

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

This Christmas is a troubled time — a season of war rather than peace from the Black Sea to Bethlehem. America is full of political foreboding, and Christmas itself has become a source of controversy.

Samuel Johnson once observed that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” A rebellion turns out to work equally well for sharpening one’s ...