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Hamnet’s forest witch: how Agnes Hathaway chimes with the growing interest in ‘green witchcraft’

The 2026 Oscars saw Jessie Buckley win best actress for her searing portrayal of a mother’s grief in Hamnet. But the film is also a story about a “green witch”, for Agnes Hathaway is no ordinary woman. She is a herbalist, healer and daughter of a “forest witch”.

The Conversation

Hament star Jessie Buckley wins Best Actress at the 2026 Oscars, to the surprise of no one

After being hotly tipped to win for months, even honking reviews for The Bride didn't derail Jessie Buckley's Oscar fortunes

Total Film

Jessie Buckley says she ‘doesn’t regret’ her appearance on I’d Do Anything

Oscar-nominated actor says she’s ‘so proud of that girl... I think she did great’

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Jessie Buckley reveals how The Bride impacted Hamnet performance

Jessie Buckley admits her role in The Bride! "absolutely" influenced her performance in Hamnet.

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One Battle After Another defeats Hamnet and Sinners at Baftas, as I Swear’s Robert Aramayo takes best actor

Paul Thomas Anderson drama scores six awards, as Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish woman to win leading actress prize

The Guardian - UK

Actress Jessie Buckley says Oscar-nominated Hamnet has been ‘life-changing’

The 36-year-old said making the film was a special experience.

Evening Standard

Jessie Buckley ‘honoured’ by Oscar nomination and addresses Paul Mescal snub

The 36-year-old actress has been recognised by the Academy in the best actress category.

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Shakespeare reinvented: how Chloé Zhao blends East and West philosophies in Hamnet

In Hamnet, Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) asks William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) to introduce himself by telling her a story. It is her way of seeing who this man really is.

The Conversation

Is Herefordshire experiencing a Hamnet boom? The quiet corner of England that’s been cast into the spotlight

How the award-winning motion picture could help Herefordshire rival the Cotswolds when it comes to rural escapes

The Independent UK

Ignore the awards – Hamnet is artificial and manipulative Shakespeare fan fiction

COMMENT: It is poised to sweep Oscar season, but Chloé Zhao’s tale of Shakespearean grief – starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal – is less a masterpiece than a blunt spade designed to whack you over the head until you weep from the pain, writes Patrick Sproull

The Independent UK

Paul Mescal on grief in Hamnet

Paul Mescal says Hamnet’s ending shows the impact of grief and the visually striking image of William Shakespeare covered in cracking clay at the end helps to portray this.

BANG Premier

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard

The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley

The Guardian - UK

No the theatre kids are not okay after watching the ‘Hamnet’ trailer

I can't wait to spend the holidays crying about Shakespeare!

The Mary Sue

Hamnet review – slick adaptation captures Shakespeare’s horrified unravelling

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

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