Hamnet A notorious Spanish film from 1976 asked the question Who Can Kill a Child? Fifty years later, filmmakers the world over responded, “We can!” and their movies got nominated for Oscars. Foremost among these is Chloé Zhao, whose Hamnet is a Shakespeare semi-adaptation based on a popular novel in which the Bard’s little son, Hamnet, dies of plague. His death, we are led to understand, partially inspired Hamlet . An opening title informs viewers that Hamnet and Hamlet were somehow the same name in Elizabethan times, which caused me to substitute other letters of the alphabet where the “l” in Hamlet should be. Hambet , Hamcet , Hamdet , Hameet . The movie does not allow viewers to forget the name Hamnet, though. An awkward shot of the dead tyke’s gravestone late in the film shows the title in all caps: HAMNET . The film alternates settings like a stage play, descending on Jessie Buckley (Hamnet’s mother, “a child of a forest witch”) into woodland hollows to find her in the fetal position.…