Shakespeare’s plays are very malleable and transportable. I have seen “King Lear” done as Eskimos in the Arctic, and Richard Burton performed “Hamlet” in modern dress, a black turtleneck, in fact. So: ...

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An adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel imagines how the death of Shakespeare’s young son may have shaped the creation of Hamlet — revealing how grief, faith and art intertwine in humanity’s search ...