Shakespeare

Hamnet is ‘improbable’ fiction, Shakespeare thespian, says Sir Ian McKellen

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Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Hamnet may be about to win big at the Oscars, but Sir Ian McKellen won’t be voting for Chloe Zhao’s weepie … Read more

How Shakespeare films distort history

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Why not make a film about Jonson and his son, since we know so much more about Jonson’s life than we do about Shakespeare’s, and we know that Jonson’s son Benjamin actually did die of the plague? Because Jonson is now nowhere near as well-known as Shakespeare. Hamnet cynically exploits Shakespeare’s fame to manipulate the … Read more