At the Metropolitan Opera, Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s adaptation of “Hamlet” nods to different, surprising versions of Shakespeare’s text.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMTo celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, London’s Globe Theater performed “Hamlet” in 190 countries. Dominic Dromgoole looks back on the run in “Hamlet Globe to Globe.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMHe understood how a great country could wind up being governed by a sociopath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PMAfter discovering that students don’t share his passion for the playwright’s command of language, a professor concludes that all’s well that ends well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMArthur Phillips’s splendidly devious novel consists of a Shakespearean play of his own virtuosic creation and an “introduction” that devastatingly reveals the psychological life of its…
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