While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie ...

The movie is based on real life events, but tells the fictional tale of Shakespeare and the people he loved most in life.

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

The director of Hamnet has said she only understood a third of Paul Mescal’s “to be or not to be” speech as William ...

A virtual reality theatre project that gives high school students the chance to be a character in a Shakespearean play has ...

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son while he is away in London. His death fractures everything. Jesse ...

In an interview with Q's Tom Power, the bestselling author tells us how her novel Hamnet came to be, and how the death of ...

One of the best films of the year, “Hamnet” proves there’s plenty of life in classics. Sometimes, you just need to dig for it ...

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

O’Farrell subtitled her book A Novel of the Plague, and the story is tinged with death at every turn; the premise, which she ...

Hamnet is an Oscar-bait prestige picture aimed at Hollywood’s known prejudices, its period setting meant to convince viewers that all is good with a feminist bourgeois approach to the world — same as ...

Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda follows Shakespeare's gender-swapped antihero into the afterlife — where she’s still ...