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

Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may ...

The playwright Tom Stoppard, who penned shows including Arcadia and Travesties and the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love, died last week.

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.

The playwright, who learned about his Jewish heritage late in life, addressed it in the Tony Award-winning drama ...

Stoppard's career demonstrated his thirst to tackle any subject, from Shakespeare and mathematics to Dadaist art and ...

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades ...

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé ...

What killed Shakespeare's 11-year-old son Hamnet in 1596? The 400-year mystery behind the boy who inspired Hamlet, explained.

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, imagines the lives of the Shakespeare family in fantastical and heartbreaking ...