Hamnet: parents' guide

Will's father hits and berates him until Will shoves him into a wall. A flashback shows a mother dying in childbirth in a bloodstained gown. Children suffer from plague, and wrapped bodies are glimpsed. Staged swordplay and poisonings in a play.

No profanity reported. Characters use period insults such as 'wench' and 'gypsy,' the latter an ethnic slur.

Agnes and Will have a passionate, mostly clothed sex scene before marrying, with a glimpse of his bare backside, and it leads to a pregnancy. Bare legs and stomach show through a sheer shift during childbirth, and brief male shirtlessness.

Adults drink wine at meals and celebrations, and Will gets visibly drunk once, overwhelmed by grief.

A child dies of plague in a long, agonizing sequence, followed by raw, intense grief. Painful labor scenes, a newborn who appears stillborn before gasping, plague boils, and a character standing at a precipice who considers suicide.