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What Chloe Zhao’s Shakespearean drama Hamnet lost, and gained, on the way from page to screen
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(From left) Jessie Buckley, director Chloe Zhao and Paul Mescal on the set of Hamnet.
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Sarah Bahr
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NEW YORK – Chloe Zhao had always thought of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet as a revenge play.
But her understanding of the work was upended when she began working on a movie chronicling events that shaped the play’s creation – adapted from Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical fiction novel Hamnet, which follows the Bard and his wife Agnes as the couple grieve the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet.
