Hamlet isn’t as mysterious a play as the critics make out, according to Rhoda Koenig Your review of Hamlet at Guildford’s Holy Trinity Church (9 February) says “Shakespeare gives a variety of … ...

University courses, scholarly books and entire academic careers have been devoted to the question of why the works of William Shakespeare endure, and why Hamlet in particular keeps calling out to ...

The Met imported Neil Armfield’s unsparing production from England’s Glyndebourne Festival where the Australian composer’s second opera premiered in 2017. Throughout their adaptation, Dean and Jocelyn ...

Hamlet (2025) is directed by Aneil Karia. The adaptation features Riz Ahmed (as Hamlet), alongside Morfydd Clark, Sheeba Chaddha, Joe Alwyn amongst many others. It premiered at the Telluride Film ...

Around 1905 or 1906, Sigmund Freud wrote an essay, unpublished in his lifetime, called “Psychopathic Characters on the Stage.” The essay addressed the question of what we, as spectators, get out of ...

Hamlet is in theaters on April 10. From Laurence Olivier to The Lion King; from Branagh to Bollywood and The Bad Sleep Well; few stones have been left un-turned when adapting Hamlet for the big screen ...