Hamlet, in other words, is a well-rounded person; to kill Claudius, he has to narrow himself into a kind of action hero. That requires time and psychic work.

F unny to call Hamlet a book, but it was in book form that I first read it, and I have never thought of it other than as a “book”, or to be precise, a “novel”, since. As a novel it became ...

One who saw him trudging through the snow “like Hamlet in a greatcoat” said: “I have never yet beheld a sadder [face].” A moment before his death (in 1893), the electric lights in the ...

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 ...

The book first finds him in bed, for Oblomov is a Russian Hamlet, except for a lower I.Q., and his daily question is: To get up or not to get up? His room is a maze of cobwebs and clutter.

In a sparkling blend of humor, heart, and historical intrigue, Open Book Theatre in Trenton, Michigan, is set to present Theresa Rebeck’s Bernhardt/Hamlet. Directed by Shelby R. Seeley, the ...

The ‘red book’ was bought by the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson from a West End bookshop and has since been passed on to great performers of Hamlet, including Michael Redgrave, Peter O ...