Scholars have debated for centuries whether an earlier play shaped the version we know today. Here’s the evidence.

It is still one of his most performed and read plays three centuries later. But it is also embedded in popular culture in a way no other Shakespeare play is. Sons of Anarchy, which ran on FX from 2008 ...

Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men) is going full circle and returning to the Royal Shakespeare Company for the first time in 34 years to play Claudius, the treacherous uncle in Hamlet. It is ...

A lost play known as the “Ur-Hamlet” may have existed before Shakespeare’s famous version. Debate continues over whether Thomas Kyd—or Shakespeare himself—wrote this earlier play. The mystery of the ...