The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and an outbreak of the bubonic plague the following year.

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet explores the family heartbreak and loss that inspired Shakespeare’s ...

Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' is not a folk horror film, but the acclaimed historical drama has more than a few ingredients of the ...

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may have shaped the play ‘Hamlet’.

Theatre for a New Audience will present THE TRAGEDY OF CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare, directed by Ash K. Tata, at the ...

Two of the latter are appropriately inspired by the turmoil of real events: one, a historical fiction based on Shakespeare’s ...

The Actors Circle, Scranton, is excitedly counting the days until they present William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth” to the community. Director Judith Mulder, Inkerman, has created an insightful ...

It’s 1931 Shanghai and brutal murders plague the city with unrest and suspicion as the threat of the Japanese Imperial Army intensifies. Through an insidious experiment, Rosalind Lang, a trained ...

The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear author Nan Z. Da, Stephen Greenblatt, and Orville Schell discuss how Shakespeare can deepen ...

British universities have reportedly begun putting trigger warnings on great Greek and Shakespearean tragedies for students who may be sensitive to their dark content. U.K. outlet The Telegraph ...

Soprano Avery Boettcher will be weaving together several different versions of William Shakespeare’s Juliet to create her own interpretation of one of the most famous tragic heroines of all time.