When you think about it, Gertrude and Claudius — the “villains” of Hamlet — really don’t talk to each other much in Shakespeare’s masterpiece. “Gertrude and Claudius have very few lines together,” ...

Even the Bard might have to step back marvel at the malleability of Izzard on her current global tour, though, as Izzard moves not just from comedy into the realm of Elizabethan drama, but shifts ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Literary critic (and notorious blowhard) Harold Bloom once claimed in his book "Hamlet: Poem Unlimited" that William Shakespeare's play "The ...

A new classical theater troupe is taking a fresh look at “Hamlet.” Exit Left Productions will present a fast-paced, memory-play version of Shakespeare’s great drama, which will open on Friday at ...

Writers have, over the years, started increasingly revisited male characters through a female lens, questioning how gender ...

Review: Hamlet, directed by Peter Evans. In a speech to the United Kingdom’s House of Commons on March 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky quoted Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The question for us now is ...