Twelfth Night” is one of Shakespeare’s most famous comedies, but there are depths of emotion beneath the laughs.

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This weekend in Charlottesville, catch a short film, meet famous authors and listen to some American Songbook classics.

The brief life of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet is now quite well known, thanks to Maggie O'Farrell's novel, but Hamnet also had a twin sister Judith, who outlived her brother by many decades.