The filmmaker crafted her meditation on grief through radical methods, which included reconstructing the Globe Theatre from ...

The film adaptation of Hamnet gives new meaning to “To be, or not to be.” ...

William Shakespeare grieves the loss of his son, Hamnet, in the film of the same name. The movie is one of many that explore ...

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

William Shakespeare’s child, Hamnet, died of unknown causes at age 11. The movie ‘Hamnet’ reimagines how the tragedy affected ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Since it was penned more than four hundred years ago, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been in ...

From medieval war epics to teen rom-coms, William Shakespeare’s plays have been re-imagined in nearly every era, language, and genre. Some directors revere the text; others throw it into the blender ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the world of Taylor Swift, tragic endings for Shakespearean heroines get turned into happily ever afters. Not because her versions of Juliet and Ophelia have taken control of their own fate—but ...

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 ...