"You can't cut and paste large speeches of Shakespeare and put them into a novel,"
"It just doesn't work on the page."
"It expands Shakespeare as a character, transcribes portions of Hamlet, and reproduces the totemic "To be, or not to be" soliloquy not once, but twice."
"In the first instance, William (played by Paul Mescal), better known as Will, delivers it while contemplating what to do after Hamnet's death."
Maggie O'Farrell avoided directly naming or quoting William Shakespeare in the novel Hamnet, portraying him only as Agnes Hathaway's husband and a grieving father. The novel connects Hamnet's death during the plague to the creation of Hamlet through historical name interchangeability. The film adaptation, co-written with director Chloé Zhao, expands Shakespeare as a character and incorporates portions of Hamlet, including the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy twice. Paul Mescal's Will delivers the soliloquy in private grief, and Jessie Buckley's Agnes witnesses a staged performance that reframes her understanding of their loss.
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