For example, when Hamlet was having personal issues with her father, another character would offer encouragement via Twitter, which would appear on the social-media screen.

Polonius, Lord Chamberlain to the bad king in Hamlet, advises his son, Laertes, headed for Paris, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend." Well, I've loaned ...

Catharine R. Stimpson, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, and a member of the journal’s editorial board, re-imagines Hamlet’ s sententious Polonius as a ...

Hamlet fails when the man behind the arras turns out to be Polonius instead of the King; and the King fails when Hamlet escapes from the ship that is carrying him to execution in England.

The traditional carpet is in place -- a vibrant square of orange carved out of inky darkness -- but the magic is decidedly muted in "The Tragedy of Hamlet," renowned director Peter Brook's ...

The best word I can think of to describe Hamlet at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival is "standard." There is a standard-issue Hamlet (played by Grant Chapman) feigning madness in the castle. The ...

Egger’s Polonius, a clueless but well-meaning father who wore a cartoonish waistcoat, kept the audience chuckling. In the scene of Laertes’s departure, where Polonius first interacted with his ...

Hamlet’s path of revenge and redemption touches on many characters in and around the castle of Elsinore, including the overly loquacious Lord Chamberlain Polonius (played by the director) and ...

In the so-called "nunnery" scene, the one in which Hamlet terrorizes and rejects Ophelia, Shakespeare's text leaves unclear how much Hamlet knows about Claudius and Polonius's plan to spy on him ...