Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthral in Shakespeare tearjerker - 4/5 Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s ...
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Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell’s luminous 2020 novel, shifts Shakespeare’s most famous play away from genius and towards loss.