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

Two Hamlets: Andrew Scott, left, in London in 2017, and Oscar Isaac in New York City in 2017. (Manuel Harlan/ Carol Rosegg) Samuel Johnson once observed that “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been adapted for the big screen many times. The latest version of Hamlet made its Canadian premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, this time showcasing a ...

Riz Ahmed is once again teaming up with Aneil Karia, this time for a new adaptation of “Hamlet.” And for the actor, Shakespeare’s classic story is more resonant than ever because entire swaths of ...

"It's common, my son. All that lives must die." Universal UK has revealed an official trailer for yet another new take on the ...

When you run a Shakespeare theater, one of the questions you get used to answering is “Why should I watch a 400-year-old play? What does it have to do with my life?” Well this spring, in the run-up to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...