William Shakespeare's Hamlet has always provided literary critics with a rich source for character analysis. This source has grown as critics no longer evaluate Hamlet as an artistic representation limited to the depth of which the author characterizes him but rather evaluate him as a living hum...

Before we begin, I would like to congratulate you all on getting selected for the various parts in this production of Hamlet. My name is Glenn Close, and I will be directing this production from today until it closes in Tokyo next May. I have played the role of Gertrude, as many of you know, in th...

The Shakespeare/DeVere Controversy Shakespeare is quite possibly the greatest writer of all times, or at least the most renowned. However, doubts that the man William Shakespeare, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was actually the genius that created the amazing works attributed to him, have been circula...

At various times, Shakespeare has been seen by critics as presenting Hamlet as a sensitive poet, unable to endure the cruel pressures of the world, a man driven by sexual desire for his mother and a representative of resistance to corrupt political regime. Which would be your interpretation of Ha...