The new trailer teases audiences with footage of Mescal playing Shakespeare as he writes Hamlet. Set during the Black Plague in 1580s England, Hamnet mixes actual history with reimagined circumstances. In real life, Shakespeare’s wife was named Anne Hathaway; the couple shared three kids, one of whom was named Hamnet and died at a young age.

Parting is such sweet sorrow in the first trailer for Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet.” Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, “Hamnet” tells the story of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, as they grieve the loss of their 11-year-old son,

Mescal stars as the English playwright and poet opposite Buckley's Agnes, also known as Anne, in the first shared footage, which captures the early days of their courtship before moving on to the birth of their son, Hamnet, and the tragedy that befalls the family thereafter.