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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Claudius - What They Never Told You

‘Hamnet’ is making audiences break down in tears – and upending beliefs about male grief

Did you cry during “Hamnet”?

The Conversation

Scarlet review – Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep ‘nothingness’

The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple

The Guardian - UK

Valentine’s Week 2026 Explained: Don’t Miss These Love Days

February is considered as one of the most important months for romantics and lovers. In fact, this month is widely considered as the month of love. Yes, we all know the reason for the same; February is the period in which which Valentine’s Day functions take place. This is an…

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John Updike’s best books – Ranked!

Following the publication of the novelist’s letters, we count down the best of his books, from the dark magic of The Witches of Eastwick to the misadventures of Rabbit Angstrom

The Guardian - UK

‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the terror of stage fright

Forget Halloween! Real scares can happen to actors any night of the year. Big name performers, including Zachary Hart and Harmony Rose-Bremner, recall their worst moments – and how they overcame their fears

The Guardian - UK

Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

The Guardian - UK

Alistair Petrie on Sex Education and starring in Hamlet: ‘Connor Swindells is like my son. We speak every day’

INTERVIEW: The English actor tells Ellie Harrison about the sliding-doors moment that led to his role in the Netflix teen drama, the long-awaited new season of ‘The Night Manager’, and why he’s finally returning to theatre after a decade away from the stage

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Hamlet: Wakefulness review – fraught and full-throated musical tragedy

Polish company’s musical take on Shakespeare’s death-fixated drama is full of feeling, but its story never really sings

The Guardian - UK

TV’s best (and worst) historical epics: from Wolf Hall to I, Claudius

Sweeping dramas set in days of yore are everywhere. But which are some of the finest television ever created? And which are little more than an excuse to show naked backsides?

The Guardian - UK

AI was given one month to run a shop. It lost money, made threats, and had an ‘identity crisis’

Anthropic put an AI chatbot in charge of a shop. The results show why AI won’t be taking your job just yet.

Euronews

Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis

It's all funny to watch an AI have an existential moment in a little experiment, but it's a stark reminder of the limitations that LLMs have.

PC Gamer

Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks

Anthropic and Andon Labs assigned Claude to run a business, and this is what happened.

Tom’s Hardware

The Play’s the Thing: A One-Person Hamlet review – soliloquies that make the skin tingle

Every character is distinct in this bewitching solo performance by Mark Lockyer, a masterclass in pacing and emotional clarity

The Guardian - UK

Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history

More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

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1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary and coin found in flooded Spanish cave

Archaeologists discovered ancient Roman inscriptions and a 1,900-year-old coin wedged between rock formations while exploring a cave called the Cova de les Dones in eastern Spain.

The Guardian - UK

Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest

Archaeologists hail discovery of very rare hoard featuring 44 gold coins bearing name of Celtic king Cunobelinus

The Conversation

Gladiator II features a naval battle held in the Colosseum. These brutal spectacles really happened

It’s one of the most thrilling sequences in Ridley Scott’s new film Gladiator II, the long-awaited sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning blockbuster.

The Guardian - UK

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut review – 1970s Roman empire sex shocker returns to the source

Without the extra sex that made writer Gore Vidal want his credit removed, Tinto Brass’s epic of imperial eroticism showcases a powerhouse Malcolm McDowell

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I, Claudius, Plebs and Those About to Die: a look back at five decades of Ancient Rome on television

How often do you think about the Roman empire? That was the question posed by a highly popular TikTok trend from last year. Women the world over were surprised to find out that, for many men, the answer is “every day”, or at least “several times a week”.

Evening Standard

The best TV shows set in Rome: from I, Claudius to Britannia

Grab that gladius and get ready to fight

The Guardian - UK

Hamlet review – one-woman juggling act exposes limits of Eddie Izzard’s acting ability

A marathon achievement for its feat of memory, this performance feels like avant garde cabaret at times

The Guardian - UK

Lost instruments, logic gates and lots and lots of drunkonyms – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Letter: Tim Woodward on stage

Roland Jaquarello writes: In 2000 he played Claudius opposite Mark Rylance’s Hamlet at the Globe

The Guardian - UK

The film’s the thing: Ian McKellen’s new Hamlet shows the screen can outdo the stage

Sean Mathias has reimagined his 2021 production of Shakespeare’s tragedy as a movie, inventively using Windsor’s Theatre Royal and capturing McKellen’s subtle performance

The Guardian - UK

Mark Shelmerdine obituary

TV and film producer who started in business with rights to the Poldark and I, Claudius novels acquired by Alexander Korda

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