What do you get when you pair the Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao with Maggie O’Farrell, the best-selling author of Hamnet? A long-awaited film adaptation led by none other than Hollywood’s hottest leading man, Paul Mescal, alongside the incomparable Jessie Buckley. The story traces the relationship between William and Agnes Shakespeare—and the shattering impact of their only son’s death at age 11. His name was Hamnet, and scholars and critics have wondered about the effect of his death on his father’s plays, particularly Hamlet. It was a few years after the loss of Hamnet that Shakespeare began to write his tragedies. —Carolina de Armas