Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Shakespeare had the good fortune to write Hamletbefore anyone could tell him how to fix it. Were he working today, the ...

A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...

Today, Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play that haunts itself. Its saturation into cultural consciousness means that watching a performance is inevitably a process of past ghosts and past echoes framing ...

Shakespeare buffs attending Poor Players’ production of”Hamlet,” opening Oct. 3 in San Marcos, will probably noticesomething quite different about the play — its running time. Director Nick Kennedy ...