Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 Hamnet offered a fictional exploration of an unnamed Latin tutor turned writer and his wife, Agnes, coming to terms with the death of their child. (The characters represented ...

William Shakespeare might not have been an absent husband after all. While it has long been believed that the playwright left his family in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to go work in London, a newly ...

In her moving 2020 novel, Hamnet, the Northern Irish writer Maggie O'Farrell explored the possibility that a real-life tragedy may have inspired one of the greatest fictional tragedies ever written.

The relationship between William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway may have been happier than previously thought, according to new research. For more than 200 years it has been believed that ...

Director Chloe Zhao’s earthy and sensuous film Hamnet is based on the book by Maggie O’ Farrell, who also co-wrote the screenplay. It not only foregrounds Shakespeare’s personal rather than ...

Chloe Zhao's film Hamnet, based on Maggie O'Farrell's novel, offers a refreshing perspective by centering on Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare's wife, reimagined as Agnes in the film. This article explores ...

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

Few historical movies make you want to know the real story behind them more than Hamnet. And few areas of popular history have so few answers to offer as the biography of the 16th-century Shakespeare ...

With cinema-goers flocking to Hamnet, about the life of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, Stratford-upon-Avon is bracing itself ...

Shakespeare always gives biographers and storytellers an itch to fill in the facts. Why did he spend so much time in London, despite his family still living in Stratford? Which characters did he play, ...