Writers have, over the years, started increasingly revisited male characters through a female lens, questioning how gender ...
The Oscar winner discusses reimagining Shakespeare through a modern South Asian lens — where ancestral spirits and corporate greed haunt the streets of London: "It's a timeless story." By Lily Ford If ...
Scholars and critics have long thought William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is the greatest work in English literature. On the one hand, the story is simple. Hamlet’s uncle Claudius poisons Hamlet’s father, ...
Most retellings of Hamlet keep the gaze intact and change the furniture. This one walks in through a different door entirely and refuses to leave. Who gets to seek revenge? Adishakti’s A Woman Or Not ...
He is on screen, onstage, on tour, online and in song. Hamlet – William Shakespeare’s masterpiece about a moody Danish prince – seems to be having a moment. A production by the UK’s National Theatre ...
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 ...
The cast of Hamlet (Ato Blankson-Wood, Solea Pfieffer, and Nick Rehberger) discuss what forces influence their relationships with one another, and how a modern context helps bring new ideas within the ...