The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language. That was the striking message I took away from a talk by translation studies scholar Professor Susan Bassnett at the British ...

Some of the best movies based on Shakespeare's plays aren't always obviously inspired by them, from Warm Bodies to The Lion ...

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(Note this transcript is auto generated and may contain transcription errors.) ANDREW BOWEN Welcome back to Midday Edition. I'm Andrew Bowen sitting in for Jade Hindmon. CLIP Brush up your Shakespeare ...

Shakespeare’s worlds are pliable, unstuck in the time and place they were originally conceived. As such, artists have great freedom when deciding how and where to set his work, and the effect is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Two Shakespeare adaptations — Teatro La Plaza’s uplifting remix and Red Bull Theater’s gore fest — place very different values on ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2026 issue. In September, two new Shakespeare adaptations used the Bard’s canonical plays as jumping-off points to bring stories infused with ...

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to Hamlet, the contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play, reteaming Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) with director Aneil Karia following ...