In these opening moments, director Mamoru Hosoda (Belle) transports viewers to a fantastic realm, one where the past and ...

In the 16 th century, especially during the years when the bubonic plague ravaged Europe, the death of a child was so ...

Yet in Hosoda’s latest, “Scarlet,” the director’s enviable reach exceeds his grasp. In it, his female protagonist is a ...

Between Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley's "Hamnet" and Riz Ahmed's upcoming modern take, it's another big moment for the Shakespeare tragedy.

The theories behind the elusive Ur-Hamlet and its influence on Shakespeare’s tragedy, from disputed authorship to clues ...

Riz Ahmed discusses reimagining Hamlet through a South Asian lens, emphasizing storytelling's power as an act of defiance.

In age where movies make $2 billion and somehow make little cultural impact, the success of William Shakespeare seems ...

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...

Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades ...

The real William Shakespeare had a son named Hamnet, whose death at the age of 11 inspired the playwright’s masterpiece ...