In Dobson's eyes, Shakespeare depicted the complexity of human nature, while Tang Xianzu wrote about the pursuit of the soul.

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

Composer Max Richter turned to Elizabethan-era instruments and a women’s choir to help find “ Hamnet ‘s” emotional tone.

From the making of the Constitution to the courts of today, Shakespeare’s words have shaped India’s legal imagination in ...

Wikipedia indicates that the current movie Hamnet, based on the 2022 novel by Maggie O’Farrell, is fiction. But one need not resort to Wikipedia to know “Hamnet” is fiction. Though ...

Yorick (Geoffrey Barnes), and Ophelia (Austin Tichenor) in the Reduced Shakespeare Company production of “The Comedy of ...

The Improvised Shakespeare Company has kicked off their 8th annual tour at the Kennedy Center, running through December 23.

The new film, adapted from a book by Maggie O'Farrell, is directed by Chloé Zhao and stars Paul Mescal as the famous English ...

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

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of ...

William Shakespeare wrote ‘King Lear,’ ‘Macbeth,’ and ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ as London reeled from the foiled 1605 Gunpowder ...