Hamlet, William Shakespeare’s most famous play, was the subject of three different movies this year. However, this trio of films were a far cry from Kenneth Branagh’s unabridged adaptation, or even ...

While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie O’Farrell did something counterintuitive: She avoided referencing or quoting the ...

As effective as the scenes are in the finished film, Zhao was torn about including the soliloquy. The director, who won an Oscar for the pensive Nomadland, wanted Hamnet’s screenplay to incorporate ...