The filmmaker crafted her meditation on grief through radical methods, which included reconstructing the Globe Theatre from ...

Two movies were released this past November, “Frankenstein” on the 7th, and “Hamnet” on the 26th. Both were based, in part, on well-known fictional works from previous centuries, Mary Shelley’s ...

While writing the novel Hamnet, which imagines the hidden origins of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the author Maggie ...

The director of Hamnet has said she only understood a third of Paul Mescal’s “to be or not to be” speech as William ...

While often technically impressive, “Hamnet” portrays grief with the subtlety of a brick to the head. One could argue that any piece of art is inherently emotionally manipulative, but Zhao seems to be ...

I would never be so presumptuous, nor so incorrect, as to compare myself to William Shakespeare. But the portrayal of Shakespeare’s brand of grief in “Hamnet” — his need to put words to and make a ...

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Chloé Zhao and more of the artists behind 'Hamnet' detail the making of the climactic sequence ...

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The movie is based on real life events, but tells the fictional tale of Shakespeare and the people he loved most in life.

For the new film Hamnet, understanding the Bard’s homes was essential to telling the story of his family and their tragic loss.

O’Farrell subtitled her book A Novel of the Plague, and the story is tinged with death at every turn; the premise, which she ...