Is the 2025 film ‘Hamnet’ a true story? What history reveals about Hamnet Shakespeare, his tragic death at 11, and how he may ...

The plague arrives and, despite concern for Hamnet’s more sickly twin sister Judith, takes the life of Shakespeare’s only son while he is away in London. His death fractures everything. Jesse ...

The theories behind the elusive Ur-Hamlet and its influence on Shakespeare’s tragedy, from disputed authorship to clues ...

One is an Oscar winner, the other is an aspiring Oscar contender. But both are largely fictionalized accounts of Shakespeare's life.

Jessie Buckley is back in the spotlight thanks to her critically acclaimed performance in the historical drama Hamnet.

Wikipedia indicates that the current movie Hamnet, based on the 2022 novel by Maggie O’Farrell, is fiction. But one need not resort to Wikipedia to know “Hamnet” is fiction. Though ...

Not much is known about the personal lives of William Shakespeare, his wife or their three children, only two of whom survived to adulthood. Cinema is littered with various filmmakers’ attempts to ...

Like The New Yorker, I was born in 1925. Somewhat to my surprise, I decided to keep a journal of my hundredth year.

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé ...

A review by Jason Rhodes for Insurgent Notes #13., October 2016.

Founded in 1840, The Tablet is the leading independent English-language Catholic weekly, celebrated for great writing, astute ...

At any rate, why do I mention Fleming and his creation James Bond? Because in late-January my wife and I will be travelling ...