When you get down to it, that’s the simplicity at the heart of this story: Hamlet’s father dies, and we see how it destroys him; Polonious’ death destroys Laertes and Ophelia. Besides that ...

An exacerbated husband turned to the internet for help after his wife demanded they name their twins Romeo and Juliet - and ...

Concerned with naming his kids “after a fictional couple who die,” he asked Reddit ... like Ophelia and Laertes from Hamlet or Claudio and Isabella from Much Ado About Nothing.” ...

For the play’s original off-Broadway and Broadway runs in 2022 and 2023, Smith was cast as Larry (loosely inspired by Laertes in “Hamlet”). The role enabled him to show his range. “I go from being a ...

He appears at the end of the first act, revealing that he died not from natural causes but from murder (by his own brother!), and he begs Hamlet to avenge his death. This speech is commanding ...

Does your life lack "main character energy?" Do you sometimes feel like an extra in an absurdist play? Then, maybe you can relate to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a prince driven to prolonged inaction ...

Laertes and Claudius tumble down the deck and out of sight, one by one, leaving only the dying Hamlet, cradled by his friend Horatio. It is an impressively clutter-free death spree, which ensures ...