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how Maggie O'Farrell’s Hamnet takes from – and mistakes – Shakespeare

  • Written by Kate Flaherty, Senior Lecturer (English and Drama), Australian National University
how Maggie O'Farrell’s Hamnet takes from – and mistakes – ShakespeareJessie Buckey as Agnes and Paul Mescal as Shakespeare in the film adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet.Universal Pictures Australia

In her eighth novel Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell imagines the short life and tragic death of Shakespeare’s only son, aged 11, in 1596. Although it is not known how Hamnet died, O’Farrell attributes his...

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