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

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

Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' is not a folk horror film, but the acclaimed historical drama has more than a few ingredients of the ...

When Maggie O’Farrell first read Hamlet in school, the play got under her skin. As a teenager who wore "too much black and definitely too much eyeliner," she felt a kinship with the tortured Prince of ...

As she watches the play “Hamlet” for the first time, Shakespeare’s grief-stricken wife begs to know what this work of fiction ...

Remarkably few movies have taken a look at the life of the Bard. With the release of 'Hamnet,' we look back on three past depictions — and how they did when it came to the Oscars.

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

The new film, adapted from a book by Maggie O'Farrell, is directed by Chloé Zhao and stars Paul Mescal as the famous English playwright. It’s one of three films out now about famous artists and their ...

There are probably no greater academic debating topics than the mysterious life of the Bard of Avon — William Shakespeare. Did he really write those plays? If he didn’t, who did? Was he involved in ...

Live fast, die young and write a pleth’ra of plays and poems. That was the motto William Shakespeare most likely lived by (and may have even scribbled down) nearly four centuries ago in early ...

Unlike other representations of William Shakespeare, Steven’s portrait was painted on wood panels rather than canvas. Researchers were able to pinpoint when the painting was made with dendrochronology ...