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 ...

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

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 ...

Scholars have debated for centuries whether an earlier play shaped the version we know today. Here’s the evidence.

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 ...

Shakespeare had the good fortune to write Hamletbefore anyone could tell him how to fix it. Were he working today, the playwriting system—in this country, at least—would exhaust itself trying to ...

Hamlet is, in many ways, the classic over thinker. Even after learning who murdered his father, he falters. He plans, he rethinks the plan, he tests the waters, he ponders morality, he questions his ...

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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