Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of the novel Hamnet reimagines the poetic act of creating the greatest play in the English language. Photo: Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features We know next to nothing about William Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, other than the fact that he and his twin sister Judith were born sometime in 1585 and that he was buried in August of 1596, 11 years later. Even the cause of death is unknown, though the deaths of young children were not entirely uncommon at the time; three of