"Hamnet," in theaters Wednesday, is a moving drama about grief and a refreshing exploration of William Shakespeare's famous ...

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, ...

Tom Stoppard’s contributions to cinema – official and unofficial – are far richer than you’d know from a cursory look at what ...

Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get ...

At its heart, Hamnet is about grief, love, marriage, parenthood, and the emotional experiences that history did not preserve.

Yes. Hamnet was the only son of Agnes and William, and the twin brother of their second daughter, Judith. He died at the age ...

Chloé Zhao’s film depicts the inspiration for “Hamlet” as a relentlessly woeful tale.

Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner and an Oscar winner for his script to 'Shakespeare in Love, ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, ...

Based on a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, director Chloé Zhao's film presupposes that “Hamlet” was not a reworking of the ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of ...