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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is reimagined with a modern twist in Shakespeare Society’s Fall production of Hamlet. It’s Hamlet but if ...

Between Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley's "Hamnet" and Riz Ahmed's upcoming modern take, it's another big moment for the Shakespeare tragedy.

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

Although I’m wary of declaring any literary work to be the greatest ever, Shakespeare’s Hamlet would be a frontrunner. It’s often proclaimed to be or voted Shakespeare’s best play (Google it). It has ...