The film starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley is inspired by William Shakespeare and the death of his son Hamnet, but how ...

Arts editor Nina Nannar speaks to the director and stars of the film, which tells the largely unknown story of William ...

We've had to wait for it in the UK, but Hamnet has finally arrived if you want to be emotionally devastated this weekend at ...

I was talking to a friend about Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet recently, about how its central conflict is that of a father – who just ...

As Hamnet is released at cinemas this week, Herald Arts sits down with SBT’s Professor Charlotte Scott to get her thoughts on ...

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are generating early Oscars buzz for their new Shakespeare drama, but what do the critics ...

Director Chloe Zhao’s earthy and sensuous film Hamnet is based on the book by Maggie O’ Farrell, who also co-wrote the ...

Hamnet differs from its big screen predecessors in putting Shakespeare's wife Agnes at the heart of the film and depicting ...

Shakespeare has been played by many. So, actor Paul Mescal, true to his craft, wanted to play a massively popular figure ...

Jessie Buckley, already the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner, is remarkable as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes in Chloé Zhao’s ...

Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet took on one of the greatest giants of all, William Shakespeare, and successfully ...

The product of their transatlantic writing partnership – which took place through the exchange of multiple drafts, messages and voice notes ("I’d sometimes wake up to about 15 of them from Chloé – the ...