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fromwww.theguardian.com
16 hours agoHamnet wins top award at the Toronto film festival
Chloé Zhao's film Hamnet won the Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and suggesting strong Oscar prospects.
Understandably, the scarcity of our insight into the life of Hamnet and his family has inspired writers and artists over the years to fill in the details with their own imaginings. As an opening quote from Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt reminds us, in both Maggie O'Farrell's haunting 2020 novel Hamnet and Chloe Zhao's new adaptation of it: "Hamnet and Hamlet are in fact the same name, entirely interchangeable in Stratford records in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."