Intense grief and loss are hard topics to bring out when dealing with our greatest playwright because we think we know him from the plays.
Of course we know little of the real facts of Shakespeare’s life and Hamnet is as valid a tale of the relationship between him and his wife as any other while they try to make sense of their son’s death.
Jessie Buckley won this year’s Oscar for Best Actress for her portrayal of a mother stricken by grief and loss of her child with Paul Mescal playing the bard tormented by the fact of being in London at the time of the death.
