Review: In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare Becomes Soap Opera

Writers of historical fiction are allowed to take liberties — they are in the business of filling in blanks, after all. But how much is too much? At what point does something become so speculative, its connection to the factual record so tenuous, that it ceases to be historically credible? At the…

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