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

In both life and art, Holbein had a “talent for catching every rising tide”, said Mathew Lyons in The Spectator. Goldring’s ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Chloé Zhao's film, like Maggie O'Farrell's book, is built on a thin layer of historical truth. Here's what little we know.

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped the bard's most famous works. This illustration shows William Shakespeare ...

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 ...

Here’s something most people don’t realize about William Shakespeare. The man who gave us Hamlet, arguably the most famous play in the English language, had an 11-year-old son named Hamnet who died in ...

Flags from Botanical Shakespeare: An Illustrated Compendium of All the Flowers, Fruits, Herbs, Trees, Seeds, and Grasses Cited by the World’s Greatest Playwright, by Gerit Quealy with illustrations by ...