Possible spoilers. Comments on historical v fictional portrayal
1. The music is awful. It's not appropriate to the time period, and even for the current time period it's awful music.
2. Hamnet was played by a boy who might have 7-10 years old. The historical Hamnet was about 2.
3. Torture porn. We see a guy being disemboweled, and his intestines are pulled out before our eyes. Then we see a guy being tortured, and some object is forced down his throat.
4. Christopher Marlowe, who probably was one of Walsingham's secret agents, telling an actor that he's a secret agent. He'd be a pretty poor one too, if he blabbed it all over town. Though that might explain his real life death in Deptford.
5. Shakespeare as Catholic. This is a matter that is disputed. He may have been; he may not have been. My own belief is that he was probably Catholic, but played at being Anglican to avoid torture and nasty stuff like that. His mother thrusts a rosary on him. That makes no sense at all. These people are terrified of persecution for being Catholic, so they give their son a rosary to take with him?
6. He has a secret letter stolen from him by a kid, and can't catch the tyke. He's so out of shape that he can't catch a poverty stricken little brat?
7. The Elizabethan stage was not some punk rock scene. Whatever it was, it wasn't that.
Avoid this dreck. Read Shakespeare instead. Your brain will thank you, and your stomach will be saved from retching at the torture porn.
1. The music is awful. It's not appropriate to the time period, and even for the current time period it's awful music.
2. Hamnet was played by a boy who might have 7-10 years old. The historical Hamnet was about 2.
3. Torture porn. We see a guy being disemboweled, and his intestines are pulled out before our eyes. Then we see a guy being tortured, and some object is forced down his throat.
4. Christopher Marlowe, who probably was one of Walsingham's secret agents, telling an actor that he's a secret agent. He'd be a pretty poor one too, if he blabbed it all over town. Though that might explain his real life death in Deptford.
5. Shakespeare as Catholic. This is a matter that is disputed. He may have been; he may not have been. My own belief is that he was probably Catholic, but played at being Anglican to avoid torture and nasty stuff like that. His mother thrusts a rosary on him. That makes no sense at all. These people are terrified of persecution for being Catholic, so they give their son a rosary to take with him?
6. He has a secret letter stolen from him by a kid, and can't catch the tyke. He's so out of shape that he can't catch a poverty stricken little brat?
7. The Elizabethan stage was not some punk rock scene. Whatever it was, it wasn't that.
Avoid this dreck. Read Shakespeare instead. Your brain will thank you, and your stomach will be saved from retching at the torture porn.