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.

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.

Focus Features has shared the first teaser trailer for Hamnet, the upcoming historical drama based on Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name. The movie is currently slated to arrive in select theaters on November 27.