Explore Shakespeare via his life, poems and plays. There will be a case study of Hamlet—see “To be or not to be” performed in a variety of films.

We will also consider the impact of Hollywood’s biographical revisions in Tom Stoppard’s “Shakespeare in Love” (1996), Kenneth Branagh’s “All is True” (2018), and Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet” (2025).