The Shakespeare Central Times

By Laura Estill for BritishCouncil.org, 9 June 2015 Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular play in modern times, but how did Shakespeare’s contemporaries rate his works? Professor Laura Estill of the World Shakespeare Bibliography looks at how attitudes to Shakespeare have changed over time. Nearly 400 years after his death, the best-known of all Shakespeare’s lines is ‘To be or not to be’ from Hamlet, his most popular play in modern times. Hamlet has […]