Hamnet Shakespeare died in 1596, about five years before his father’s epic tragedy “Hamlet” premiered. The stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction book about the Bard and his ...
The works of William Shakespeare are so ingrained within the popular consciousness that it can sometimes be difficult to remember that they were in fact written by a man as human as the rest of us. He ...
In 2019, Maggie O’Farrell’s agent sent emailed a group of producers and filmmakers to share a manuscript of the author’s ...
When most audiences walked out of Chloé Zhao’s latest film “Hamnet,” they were wracked with grief and soaked in tears. “It’s all terrifying, transcendent and so intimately human,” reads WSN’s own ...