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Hamnet Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in January 1585. The twins (Hamnet and Judith) were baptized on 2 February 1585 and named after two very close friends of the Shakespeare’s: the Stratford baker, Hamnet Sadler, and his wife, Judith. Hamnet was given the name ‘Sadler’ as a second name. Hamnet died when he was eleven years ...
17 lug 2020 · In 1596, Hamnet, just 11 years old, died. (The cause of death is unknown; O’Farrell imagines, plausibly, that it was plague.) By then William Shakespeare was an established playwright, living in ...
26 nov 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 ...
7 apr 2023 · A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about. “She’s so alive,” said Madeleine Mantock ...
21 lug 2020 · Almost nothing is known about William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her new novel, which imagines the boy's life and death.
Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare 's son, Hamnet , who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. In Canada , the novel was published under the title Hamnet & Judith .
Warwickshire, 1582. Agnes Hathaway, a natural healer, meets the Latin tutor, William Shakespeare. Drawn together by powerful but hidden impulses, they create a life together and make a family. When the plague steals 11-year-old Hamnet from his loving parents, they must each confront their loss alone. And yet, out of the greatest suffering ...
