In age where movies make $2 billion and somehow make little cultural impact, the success of William Shakespeare seems ...

This article discusses the ending of Hamnet. Among the words that never appear in Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 book Hamnet: A ...

Oscar Isaac is doing a bit of time traveling these days, cinematically at least, with three new films that all debuted at ...

Riz Ahmed discusses reimagining Hamlet through a South Asian lens, emphasizing storytelling's power as an act of defiance.

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

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 ...

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

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

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

Agnes reaches for Hamlet’s hand at the Globe, as Will’s Ghost and the name itself turn grief into a brief reunion onstage.

Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide.

Hamlet protests in response that he isn’t acting. Dressing in black and crying all the time are the kinds of things anyone ...