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Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea on Seven Decades of Shakespeare
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Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O'Hea on Seven Decades of Shakespeare

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Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea talk about Dench’s experiences playing Ophelia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth and Titania. Plus, parrots, Polonius, dirty words, hijinks with Sir Ian McKellen, and more.

Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo
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Eddie Izzard on Performing Hamlet Solo

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Legendary comedian and actor Eddie Izzard tells us about her one-actor performance of Hamlet.

Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish
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Shakespeare and Disgust, with Bradley J. Irish

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Bradley J. Irish explains why disgust is one of the key thematic emotions in Shakespeare’s works.

10 Shakespeare quotes about fear
Shakespeare and Beyond

10 Shakespeare quotes about fear

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Ben Lauer

As Halloween approaches, we take a look at Shakespeare’s best quotations about fear.

Quiz: Hamlet or Polonius?
Hamlet in a ruff
Shakespeare and Beyond

Quiz: Hamlet or Polonius?

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Shakespeare & Beyond

Who said it: Hamlet or Polonius? Test your knowledge of these well-known lines from Hamlet.

Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost
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Isabella Hammad on Enter Ghost

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A Palestinian production of Hamlet in the West Bank is the backdrop for Isabella Hammad’s new novel, Enter Ghost.

Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet
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Adrian Lester on Playing Rosalind, Henry V, Othello, and Hamlet

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Actor Adrian Lester walks us through big moments in his illustrious career, including Cheek by Jowl’s all-male “As You Like It” and Peter Brook’s “Hamlet.”

James Ijames on Fat Ham
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James Ijames on Fat Ham

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright tells us about his hilarious adaptation of Hamlet.

Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet
Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon
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Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet

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Shakespeare & Beyond

In this bilingual Hamlet, a Black and Latinx prince has his sense of identity fractured by the loss of his Black father.

An Ofrenda to Shakespeare’s Afterlives
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An Ofrenda to Shakespeare’s Afterlives

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Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos

Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos write about stage adaptations of “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” that engage with Día de los Muertos traditions, reframing Shakespeare’s meditations on life and death according to Indigenous and Latinx worldviews.

Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet
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Ian McKellen on Playing Hamlet

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Sir Ian McKellen played Hamlet in his thirties, and again in his eighties. He gives us his take on the Melancholy Dane.

How Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett
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How Shakespeare Thought About the Mind, with Helen Hackett

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The Elizabethan period marked an unusually rich moment for theories of consciousness and for the representation of thought in literature, says scholar Helen Hackett.

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