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A Video Game About Changing What Happens In Shakespeare’s Hamlet

A Video Game About Changing What Happens In Shakespeare’s Hamlet

By Nathan Grayson for kotaku.com, 16 March 2016 Elsinore is a game where you play as Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s stuck in a time loop, ala Groundhog Day or Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Her goal? To prevent Hamlet, a Shakespearean tragedy so tragic that it borders on ludicrous, from ending tragically. I took a look at the game while at GDC in San Francisco. It’s […]

March 20, 2016 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
When it comes to Shakespeare, composer Patrick Doyle knows the score

When it comes to Shakespeare, composer Patrick Doyle knows the score

By David Ng for the Los Angeles Times, 27 November 2015 When it comes to writing music for the plays of William Shakespeare, few living composers can claim as much experience as Patrick Doyle, the two-time Academy Award nominee who has collaborated with Kenneth Branagh on screen adaptations including “Henry V,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Hamlet.” Doyle has written music for more than […]

December 5, 2015 · 0 comments · Film, Popular Culture
What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write?

What Kind of Novels Did Shakespeare Write?

By Daniel Pollack-Peizner for The New Yorker, 9 November 2015 In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master of ecological dystopias, will reimagine “The Tempest,” for instance, while Gillian Flynn, who knows her way around marriage and murder, will take on […]

November 15, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture
Is Hamlet Fat?

Is Hamlet Fat?

By Isaac Butler for Slate, 20 September 2015 Picture for a moment Hamlet, the melancholy prince of Denmark. Chances are, you’re imagining a dashing gentleman who looks like one of the many famous actors who’ve played him. Kenneth Branagh, say, or Laurence Olivier, or Jude Law or David Tennant. You might even picture Benedict Cumberbatch, who is drawing crowds to London to see […]

September 24, 2015 · 0 comments · Uncategorized
Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican, London: Selected Reviews

Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet at the Barbican, London: Selected Reviews

Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet, review: Pointedly subversive Prince lacks spontaneity By Paul Taylor for The Independent, 25 August 2015 With his great gift for portraying the brilliant misfit and racing, ironic intellect, Benedict Cumberbatch is natural casting for Hamlet.  But I wonder if a bit of him now wishes that he’d tackled the part at some point before the global success […]

September 4, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews