Hamlet

Many of Shakespeare’s most renowned plays focus on the male characters at the centre of the narrative; we only have to look at titles such as Othello, Hamlet and Macbeth to understand that the men in these plays are the top dogs. This may be due to the illegality...

“Alas, poor Yorick”.  “Brevity is the soul of wit.”  “To be or not to be”. Some of the most well known lines in English and theatrical history and all from the same play.  Shakespeare’s Hamlet may be over 400 years old, but it certainly has not lost it’s spark...

Director Vishal Bhardwaj made a name for himself in the Indian film industry with his critically acclaimed adaptations of Macbeth (Maqbool) and Othello (Omkara) back in the early 2000s. Eleven years after Maqbool, he finally completes his Shakespearean trilogy with an adaption of Hamlet that has opened to much...