A grieving son; a father's ghost; a mother's untimely remarriage: Shakespeare's tragedy of Hamlet has long been among his best-known and most-celebrated plays. But before the familiar tale of delayed ...

‘Hamlet with the brakes off,’ is how one actor described the earliest version of Shakespeare’s play. ‘Hamlet without the best bits’ might be a better summary. The ‘bad quarto’of the 1603 text – heavy ...

COVID infections in the cast and crew prompted Actors’ Theatre of Columbus to cancel the Thursday and Friday performances of "Hamlet, 1603", according to artistic director Philip J. Hickman. Whether ...

Bad Quarto? Bad? Man - it's sick! Or so a middle-aged man might imagine the reaction of young people to Imogen Bond's stripped down, very modern Hamlet (Bad Quarto). Inexplicably unperformed in ...

The tragedy of Hamlet is founded upon a story told by Saxo Grammaticus in his Historia Danica. Written about 1180-90, printed in 1514, retold in Belleforest’s Histoires Tragiques in 1570, it found its ...

Shakespeare may have used the play to win the favour of the newly crowned James I in 1603 Washington: William Shakespeare’s popular play Hamlet was dated wrongly, causing scholars to overlook a ...

William Shakespeare’s popular play Hamlet was dated wrongly, causing scholars to overlook a message that has hidden in plain sight for centuries, new research has claimed. Until recently, academics ...

“To be, or not to be – aye, there’s the point” Hamlet, but not as you know it, and what an eye opening and engaging piece of theatre this version is. Using the original First Quarto text, published in ...