Hamnet’ is a family drama about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children. Learn how the movie blends fact and ...

Some theories suggest that poet and playwright William Shakespeare was not the real author of his famous works, including ...

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

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past ...

We visited the birthplace of William Shakespeare to summon the playwright’s spirit in the town where he lived—and which comes ...

Despite a truncated third act, Jessie Buckley gives a devastating portrait of grief as the wife of William Shakespeare in ...

Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda follows Shakespeare's gender-swapped antihero into the afterlife — where she’s still ...

Composer Max Richter turned to Elizabethan-era instruments and a women’s choir to help find “ Hamnet ‘s” emotional tone.

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

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

Paul Mescal stars as a young William Shakespeare opposite Jessie Buckley in the adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, ...

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son ...