Yes. Hamnet was the only son of Agnes and William, and the twin brother of their second daughter, Judith. He died at the age ...

A film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as the Bard and his wife, ...

Reams of scholarship and fictional takes have imagined how Shakespeare’s earthly life influenced his plays. “Hamnet” isn’t one of them. The boldly devastating film from Oscar-winning director Chloé ...

Chloé Zhao, director of the Oscar-winning "Nomadland," returns with a sodden, sorrowful fiction about Shakespeare's home life ...

Though little is known about the life of William Shakespeare's only son, historians say his premature death may have shaped ...

William Shakespeare is, arguably, the most influential writer in history, with lines that have been parroted both in and out ...

This well-crafted story of William Shakespeare's early family life, starring Paul Mescal as The Bard, has a major flaw that is tough to overlook.

A new film, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel, posits that the death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son may have ...

Oscar-tipped new film Hamnet imagines the home life of William and Agnes Shakespeare – and the "soul-crushing" loss of their ...

Who was William Shakespeare, really? What was he like as a person? George Bernard Shaw once quipped that “everything we know about Shakespeare can be got into a half-hour sketch,” but if you limit ...

What did William Shakespeare look like? For some people, the answer to that question can be found in Martin Droeshout’s famous engraving of the author. Others might think of one of the actors who has ...