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Jul 21, 2020 · Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre, inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever"--Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling… deserves to win prizes"--Marian Keyes, author of The Break "It so happens that the child at ...
May 21, 2021 · Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet,” one of last year’s most widely acclaimed novels, imagines the life of William Shakespeare, his wife, Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway, and the couple’s son Hamnet ...
Sep 9, 2020 · Ever since studying Shakespeare at school, Maggie O’Farrell has been intrigued by the playwright’s only son, Hamnet, who died from bubonic plague in 1596 at the age of 11.
Sep 11, 2018 · Bush Moukarzel, actor, playwright and director of Hamnet. Hamnet centres on the fact that very little is known about Shakespeare’s life, including his offspring (Hamnet had a twin sister called ...
Hamnet Shakespeare. Hamnet Shakespeare was the son of the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. He was the fraternal twin of Shakespeare's youngest daughter, Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet passed away at the age of 11, and many scholars have since argued that his death might have prompted William Shakespeare to write some of his ...
Nov 26, 2023 · While Hamnet died more than four centuries ago, the last decade has seen a flurry of representations of this dead child. Shakespeare was first resurrected in the theatre in the late seventeenth century, and the success of Shakespeare in Love (1998) led to an upsurge in Bard biofictions in the ensuing decades, but it is remarkable how Hamnet has been central in recent works on the page, stage ...
Jul 21, 2020 · Off the shelf. Hamnet was William Shakespeare’s only son, but he died in 1596 at the age of 11. Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel, Hamnet, imagines a story in which a young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. They marry and start a family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
