While the fool is often associated with the Middle Ages, the figure’s role evolved a great deal in the centuries that ...

Dr Nick Walton from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust talks about the history of Hamlet in performance on the RSC stage. Here's Johnston Forbes Robertson in 1908. Some productions have gone beyond ...

Nothing is rotten in the state of Denmark as young Hamlet leaps into action to save the nunnery with Ophelia and Yorick the jester—nothing could go wrong. A fast, funny, and physical ...