I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book ... Dench explains: “Shakespeare belongs to everybody. And we must allow who we are as individuals to color our interpretation of his words: everybody’s ...

Growing up, the Bard was for white kids. Now in his forties, our columnist—professor, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner—reads ...

His plays are still burned in our cultural memory and performed the world over. But William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the man, ...

This windy spot is the exact location for the opening scene of Hamlet, Shakespeare's best-known ... experiencing the "set" of the play in real life, certainly brings it to life.

It’s just a book. That is not based on real life. It’s all art ... provided a far-from-loyal adaptation of Austen and Shakespeare’s texts, respectively. Meanwhile, a Time film critic ...

O’Farrell’s 2020 book is her take on the marriage between Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the effect ... so the ones in ...

Musical Tick, Tick… Boom!, about an aspiring composer confronted by his 30th birthday, became an Oscar-nominated film in 2021. It now reopens Theatr Clwyd in Mold, north Wales, after a three-year, ...

The best historical fiction books don't just recreate the past ... O’Farrell reimagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, during a time of plague and poetic legacy. The narrative ...

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