Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

The film, based on Maggie O’Farrell’s historical-fiction book of the same name and cowritten by her and Zhao, follows the family of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) as he and his wife, Agnes (Jessie ...