'Hamnet' (2025)

About this episode

The episode discusses the inaccuracies in the film 'Hamnet' and explores the life of Shakespeare and his family.

To fact check, or not to fact check, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the cinema to suffer the inaccuracies and anachronisms of outrageous filmmaking, or to take umbrage against a sea of errors and by a podcast correct them. For although Shakespeare may perhaps be the most famous name in western civilisation we know dramatically little about the Bard of Avon and even less so... about his family. But what did Chloe Zhao's award-winning film get right? Did Agnes really have a premonition about her children? Did Will really leave the family home in his wife's time of need? And what is so special about the second best bed?! Join us to find out on That's Not How It Went Down! Subscribe now for further listening: https://tnhiwd.supercast.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Lewis Howard, Elliot Fitzpatrick

Topics covered

• fact checking
• cinema inaccuracies
• Shakespeare
• Hamnet
• family dynamics
• film analysis

Keywords

• Hamnet
• Chloe Zhao
• Shakespeare
• film inaccuracies
• family
• premonition
• cinema

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hamnet

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