Does your life lack "main character energy?" Do you sometimes feel like an extra in an absurdist play? Then, maybe you can relate to William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a prince driven to prolonged inaction ...

By Houman Barekat Reviewing from Stratford-upon-Avon, England In the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new “Hamlet,” the Danish royal court is all at sea — quite literally. The set is a ship’s ...

The crucial duel feels rushed and somehow inconsequential. But the end is wildly spectacular, the corrupt tumbling to the depths, Hamlet transfigured, angel-like.