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Review: Royal Shakespeare’s Hamnet at Chicago Shakespeare Recreates the Drama With Pure Emotion

You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 15, 2026
    • Feature , Fiction , Interviews , Interviews , Lit , Preview , Stages , Theater

    Preview: Acclaimed Hamnet Moves From Page to Screen to Stage in U.S. Debut at Chicago Shakespeare

    Title of the stage adaptation of Hamnet from the Royal Shakespeare Company, with actors portraying Shakespeare and his wife Agnes off to one side

    The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamnet makes its U.S. premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater this week—but the title is already a familiar one. Book lovers know that Hamnet originated […]

  • Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch
  • February 6, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Hamnet, Oscar-Winner Chloe Zhao Channels Grief, Family and Shakespeare for One of the Year’s Best

    The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 29, 2025
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