The Hit and Run History crew on the trail of Stephen Hopkins in “Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck.”

Snow Library invites you to a screening of “Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck” in the library’s Craine Gallery. Produced by two-time Emmy nominee and “Hit and Run History” creator Andrew Giles Buckley, the 90-minute film follows the story of Stephen Hopkins, a Virginia-bound castaway who found his way not only onto the decks of the Mayflower but to immortalization as Stephano, the drunken and mutinous butler in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

A question-and-answer session with Buckley follows the screening. Seating is limited due to COVID; please call the library at (508) 240-3760 to reserve a seat, or email Kaimi at klum@clamsnet.org.

A decade before he sailed with the Pilgrims, Hopkins was aboard a Jamestown-bound ship that wrecked on the shores of Bermuda, an incident that is thought to have inspired the Bard’s final play. After his voyage on the Mayflower in 1620, Hopkins settled in the Plymouth colony, where he became an innkeeper of some notoriety.

A Hopkins descendant and Chatham resident, Buckley grew up hearing stories that the iconic Plymouth tavern keeper — Buckley’s 12th great-great grandfather — may have been the model for The Tempest’s Stephano. In the film, Buckley and his crew retrace Hopkins’ life crisscrossing the Atlantic, intersecting with the likes of Pocahontas and Squanto. Self-described “gumshoe historians,” they seek out the reality of a man who was everywhere at the founding of America.

Buckley is the creator of the public media series “Hit and Run History,” which was awarded a pre-production grant for “Stephano: The True Story of Shakespeare’s Shipwreck,” by the Mass. Foundation for the Humanities and by 21 Mass. Cultural Council Grants from communities across the Commonwealth. Post-production funding was raised through crowdsourcing and support from Cape Air. “Stephano” premiered on Rhode Island PBS in January 2021.

The trailer may be viewed at https://youtu.be/olsf9D2B2S4.