About two-thirds into Hamnet, the film adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel of the same name, there is a scene in which Agnes (William Shakespeare’s wife, and mother to the titular character) is witnessed expressing an unimaginable amount of pain. All fidgeting and commotion on both sides of the screen halts. We watch the veins on […] The post Behind-the-Scenes on How “Hamnet” Was Adapted from the Page to the Screen appeared first on Electric Literature .