But another monarch comes to my mind: King Claudius from "Hamlet."Critics of President Trump often point to his character — marked by vanity, dishonesty and a thirst for power — as justification for ...

As Prince Hamlet’s suspicions of King Claudius rise, songs erupt into sudden frenzies. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has orchestrated the album as a soundtrack that sends whines and wails ...

Some male characters, most notably Polonius, the king’s advisor, are changed to female characters. This works brilliantly partially because the brilliant Greta Lambert plays Polonius.

Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service — two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end.” We are all destined for the same end, food for maggot and worm. But are we?

But if Izzard is not consciously following the wise advice to the Player King, she has not found a way to internalize, well, anything: not Ophelia's broken heart and descent into madness, nor ...

Eddie Izzard brings solo performance of "Hamlet" to ACT's Strand Theater "Use all gently," advises Hamlet to the Player King in Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's famed tragedy. "For in the very ...

Here they make do with a cast of nine: Hamlet (Côté), his friend Horatio (Natasha Poon Woo), King Claudius (Robert Glumbek), Queen Gertrude (Greta Hodgkinson), councillor Polonius (Michel ...

The inspiration for the character comes from Hamlet ’s King Claudius, which is fitting given Irons’ classical training at the ...

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King Claudius exhibits a range of emotions, including regret and guilt, about his actions toward his sibling. Considering that Claudius is the catalyst for the events, it puts this character ...

Determined to confirm Claudius’s guilt, Hamlet orchestrates a play mirroring his father’s murder, which deeply unsettles the king.

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet.