Iran’s decision to levy tolls on ships passing through the crucial choke hold has an unlikely connection to the site of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet.’
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The Oscar-nominated film about Shakespeare’s son explores how men and women mourn differently – and how ‘Hamlet’ may have transformed a father’s private sorrow into enduring art.
The film diverges from Shakespeare’s original presenting a dramatic and unexpected climax to this tale of revenge.
‘Hamnet,’ focussed on Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as a healer, brings forward stronger readings of a character who’s been at the centre of feminist criticism and western pop culture: Ophelia in Hamlet.
Chloé Zhao knows how to make people feel, and Hamnet sees a new phrase in her artistry.
Was the premature death of Shakespeare’s only son really the inspiration for Hamlet?
While our culture is very different from Shakespeare’s London, his plays — and those by others — still carry the potential to bring people together and help us think deeply about our shared experience.
COVID might have closed the theatres but the show went on in Grand Theft Auto.
Kristina Ross was awarded the last Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her novel, First Year, a book that may – or may not – inspire students to attend drama school.
Considered the greatest writer in English literature, William Shakespeare illustrates views on race and whiteness throughout all of his dramatic works.
Ghosts aren’t just the domain of fiction or trick-or-treating. Hauntology is a philosophical concept that embraces ghosts.
In 26 of his 38 plays, Shakespeare includes a war. Reading them, one is tempted to ask ‘when will we ever learn?’ rather than pronounce, ‘lest we forget’.
Hamlet, the tormented prince of Denmark, embodies our own struggles: between reason and violence, courage and inaction. He is a modern character in an endlessly quotable play.
After two years of COVID-delay, Bell Shakespeare’s Hamlet reflects both personal and global tragedies.
You might think he’s the hero of his own story but the murder happy Hamlet is really an unconscionable brute.
From ‘islands of pain’ to the ‘peril of exposure,’ writers have captured the fear, emptiness and despair that characterize life during the current pandemic, writes a poet and English scholar.
The Bard’s plays have an unfair reputation for being hard. You’re probably reading them in the wrong way.
Even Samuel Johnson found some of Shakespeare’s violent scenes unwatchable.
Human milk is being traded online in the mistaken belief that it is a panacea.
Neil Armfield’s production of the Brett Dean opera Hamlet is a confronting three hours in the theatre, but then so is Shakespeare’s play. The second act is devastating in its emotional impact.
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Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies, McGill University
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Allardyce Nicoll Chair in Drama, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Dean’s Professor of Religion & Professor of History, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer in English, Keele University
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Research Associate in English Literature, University of Manchester
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Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, English and Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate lecturer visual arts, artist, PhD, Australian Catholic University
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Reader in English Literature, Cardiff University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate, English Literature, Australian National University