--- title: Why Read Hamlet When You Can Play It? description: How to reduce teen pregnancies (and why we don't). Plus how to bring women into engineering, why everyone is losing Yemen's war, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-30T16:01:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:16.841Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why read Hamlet when you can play it? og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why read Hamlet when you can play it? twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why Read Hamlet When You Can Play It? by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why read Hamlet when you can play an immersive time-traveling video game version instead?**](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/elsinore-wont-your-typical-high-school-study-groups-take-hamlet/) By Jess Joho in Kill Screen **2\.** [**Here’s how to attract female engineers.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/opinion/how-to-attract-female-engineers.html) By Lina Nilsson in the New York Times **3\.** [**Everyone is losing in Yemen’s war.**](http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/04/28/everyone-is-losing-yemens-war-saudi-arabia-houthis/) By Adam Baron in Foreign Policy **4\.** [**Google and Facebook could save — or consume — journalism.**](http://www.cjr.org/analysis/google%5Ffacebook%5Ffrenemy.php) By Emily Bell in the Columbia Journalism Review **5\.** [**We know how to dramatically reduce teen pregnancies, but we don’t. Here’s why.**](http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-iud-capital-of-the-u-s-20150424) By Nora Caplan-Bricker in the National Journal  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/"},"headline":"Why Read Hamlet When You Can Play It?","datePublished":"2015-04-30T16:01:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:16.841Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/","keywords":["Innovation","abortion","women","gender","Google","teen pregnancy","facebook","Gaming","Birth Control","Journalism","Shakespeare","Journalists","Yemen","engineering","IUD"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3841789/hamlet-video-game/","name":"Why Read Hamlet When You Can Play It?"}}]}] ```