The film “Hamnet” — an adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s historical fiction novel of the same name — presents a grief-driven ...

Taylor Swift dropped her 12th studio album, The Life Of A Showgirl, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. The lead single, entitled "The ...

William Shakespeare grieves the loss of his son, Hamnet, in the film of the same name. The movie is one of many that explore ...

Cinema’s fascination with The Bard falls into a couple of composite lanes: reverent biopic, speculative, and outright fantasy. The best examples don’t try to solve mysteries or answer historical ...

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

Stephen Greenblatt’s “Dark Renaissance,” a new biography of English poet and writer Christopher Marlowe, delves deep to discover origins, and brutalities of the start of the English enlightenment.

Stephen Greenblatt, who participated in the 2025 Charleston Literary Festival, discusses his work, including his latest book ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning, best-selling novel, *Hamnet*, has been adapted into a film featuring Jessie Buckley and ...

For centuries, William Shakespeare has existed as a monolith. We know the plays, the Sonnets, the academic arguments. What we don’t know, really, is the life: the household, the marriage, the mess.

"I can't make sense of my history!" Will Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and Anne "Agnes" Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) in an early "Hamnet" scene. Credit: Focus Features Few historical movies make you want to ...

It would be easy to crown 2025 the year of Hamlet—quite a feat considering the play was written over 400 years ago. Over the last 12 months, the tragedy of William Shakespeare’s Danish prince has ...