“Hamlet” is less a play than a universe, a place to get lost in the glory of language and story. It’s a meditation on loss, but also power, vengeance (and its limits), betrayal, family, suicide, grief ...

"Use all gently," advises Hamlet to the Player King in Act 3 Scene 2 of Shakespeare's famed tragedy. "For in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion," he continues, "you ...