Shakespeare’s play echoed the interrogative, anxious mood of the late-Elizabethan era; Branagh’s film confronted modern ...

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

Hamnet's ending offers a lot to unpack. Here's our breakdown of the movie's events and what they mean.

Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may ...

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

It is still one of his most performed and read plays three centuries later. But it is also embedded in popular culture in a way no other Shakespeare play is. Sons of Anarchy, which ran on FX from 2008 ...

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

How to be Hamlet? That was the question facing Robert Icke, the theatre director, and Alex Lawther, the actor, when they met recently in London to rehearse the play from which, it has been quipped, ...

But hold up here! Of course it’s not. After how many centuries of “to be-ing or not to be-ing” now have people been remarking on the experiments and the risks of productions that are “not your ...

Who is Hamlet? This might seem like a strange question to ask about the most famous character in all literature, a figure incarnated by some of the most brilliant actors of the last four centuries and ...

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