Many consider the tragedy of "Hamlet" to be Shakespeare's masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of all time. It has entertained audiences for centuries and the role of Hamlet is one of the most ...
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 ...
More recently, the Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt gave it publicity in a 2004 essay whose title makes the causal link clear: ‘The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet’. Greenblatt is ...
Davidson College Shakespeare scholar and Professor Emerita of English Cynthia Lewis discusses the confluence of grief and ...
On April 23 literature lovers around the planet celebrated the 452 nd birthday of William Shakespeare. The date also happened to mark the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s 1616 death, an epic ...
Gillian Flynn is going from Gone Girl to Shakespeare. Flynn will write a novel based on Hamlet for the Hogarth Shakespeare, a project to retell the Bard's plays for contemporary readers by well-known ...
Was William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" inspired by the death of his son?
MARBLEHEAD — It's rare indeed that a recent college grad can spin a liberal arts degree, a talent for writing, and a passion for Shakespeare into a bona fide book deal. Yet that's exactly what Molly ...