Archaeologists found a dog skeleton and a bone dagger in a 5,000-year-old burial close to the hamlet of Gerstaberg, Sweden.
Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda follows Shakespeare's gender-swapped antihero into the afterlife — where she’s still ...
The real William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet, whose death at the age of 11 inspired the playwright’s masterpiece ...
To watch “Hamnet” or not to watch “Hamnet,” that is the question. Luckily, the answer is simple: a clear and resounding yes.
Before Hamlet, there was Hamnet. He was the young son of William Shakespeare who died in his youth, inspiring the playwright to spin the timeless tragedy of a doomed Danish prince. Hamnet explores ...
It's just a game: Hiran Abeysekera in 'Hamlet' When the lights come up, we’re transported into an enormous room, a banqueting hall of sorts, with a tapestry stretched across the back wall, candled ...
For this is a Hamlet which is not simply in modern dress, but embraces modern sensibilities. We recognise now that grief can manifest itself in many different ways, so our titular prince doesn’t have ...
A star is born in this new production of Hamlet, the seventh in the National Theatre’s history. It isn’t the Prince, played by Hiran Abeysekera, but Francesca Mills’s Ophelia who brings this ...
Hiran Abeysekera makes a flippant, manic Hamlet in this muddled take on the quintessential tragedy Leaning into every opportunity for unsettling humour, but neglecting the rich emotional depth that ...
In her follow-up to the "The Tortured Poets Department," Taylor Swift is continuing to delight her bookish fans with literary references on her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl." The 35-year ...
A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in a wealthy British Indian family. Hamlet returns home for his father's funeral and is shocked to learn that his uncle Claudius will now marry ...
The actor reteams with Aneil Karia, the director of his Oscar-winning short 'The Long Goodbye,' in a listless update of the classic play. Transposed to modern-day London, where Hamlet belongs to a ...