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Maggie O’Farrell’s award winning, best selling novel, Hamnet has now been transformed into a film. It stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal and is getting rave reviews. Hamnet attempts to fill in the gaps in our knowledge of the family and personal life of one of the greatest writers of all time, William Shakespeare. And hypothesizes that his most famous play, Hamlet, was inspired by the tragic childhood death of his son, Hamnet. But what do we actually know about the real Agnes Hathaway, and Susanna, Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare? How much of Hamnet is historic fact and how plausible is the postulation? Come hither and hark, as verily we perpend the tidings of the bard!
Historic Facts of Shakespeare’s life
Speculation:
Agnes & the shotgun wedding
How did Hamnet die and was Hamlet about him?
Was Shakespeare trying to get away from his wife and family for a glamorous life in London?

Sources: history.com/articles/shakespeare-wife-anne-hathaway-mystery-facts ‘Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway’ by Katherine West Scheil youtube.com/watch?v=AYaweSPdNNg

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