The award-winning writer's life is as richly plotted as any of her novels. Now, 25 years after publishing her first book, she ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

Elsewhere, Nomadland director Chloé Zhao returns with Hamnet, which stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William and Agnes Shakespeare in a fictionalization of their life following the death ...

For as long as there have been films, there have been movies based on Shakespeare. Whether you love "The Bard" or stay haunted by high school English classes, there's no denying that Shakespeare ...

Trying to guess what's going to be at the Oscars a year from now — before the vast majority of the eventually nominated films are finished, let alone have hit screens — is a fool's errand.

You might reasonably argue that, after a humiliating 2025 edition, this annual exercise in soothsaying should take itself into quiet retirement. Over the past decade or so we have managed, mostly ...

“Hamnet is about redemption and art ... “It will be an exhilarating adventure to collaborate with him on this, one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.” Pierce shared Godwin’s enthusiasm. “I am so ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

Dr Leah Veronese uncovered the version of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th Century poetry collection at the University of Oxford. The manuscript was found among the papers of ...

Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company has unveiled its upcoming 40th anniversary season, which will include a Wendell Pierce-led Othello, the U.S. premiere of Hamnet, a new revival of ...

The brief life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet is now quite well known, thanks to Maggie O'Farrell's novel, but Hamnet also had a twin sister Judith, who outlived her brother by many decades.