A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...

All of the betrayal, passion, and poetry of Shakespeare’s most famous play—distilled into just 75 minutes. Watch the video ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hamnet Shakespeare was the only son of William Shakespeare, and almost everything known about him comes from sparse parish records ...

A conversation between a leading Shakespeare scholar and this summer’s Shakespeare in the Park director about staging Hamlet in the Atlanta of 2020 Ato Blankson-Wood in the Public’s Free Shakespeare ...

Although Hamnet has been getting all the attention, it’s just one of four cinematic takes on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ...

Is it the murder of a king? A hasty incestuous marriage? A prince bent on revenge? Or maybe just a gassy Polonius full of beer! Shakespeare’s greatest work gets the full treatment as we proudly ...

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Arguably the most influential work of theatre in the Western canon, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has inspired countless works across multiple mediums since debuting between 1600 and 1601. Allusions to ...