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Star playwright William Shakespeare saw a golden opportunity to get into the king’s good graces and wrote a play with witches as a main plot driver.
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Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
The feature follows the love story behind William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, with Mescal as the famed playwright and Buckley as wife Agnes Shakespeare.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Based on playwright Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, Tick, Tick… Boom!
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Jesse Buckley pulls off something similar in Hamnet, director Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel about William Shakespeare’s (Paul Mescal) relationship with Agnes, a soul of the forest, and how the death of their son, Hamnet, inspired the playwright to write Hamlet.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
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Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
The feature follows the love story behind William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, with Mescal as the famed playwright and Buckley as wife Agnes Shakespeare.
—Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Based on playwright Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical, Tick, Tick… Boom!
—Alex Gurley, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Jesse Buckley pulls off something similar in Hamnet, director Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel about William Shakespeare’s (Paul Mescal) relationship with Agnes, a soul of the forest, and how the death of their son, Hamnet, inspired the playwright to write Hamlet.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
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“Playwright.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/playwright. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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playwright
noun
play·wright
ˈplā-ˌrīt 
: a person who writes plays
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