The novel explores how personal tragedy fuels creation. Four years after his son's death, the "husband" writes a play called Hamlet —a name that was interchangeable with Hamnet in Elizabethan times. O’Farrell suggests that this act was a way for a grieving father to give his son immortality. The novel is available in digital formats:
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The plot follows the courtship of Agnes and her husband and the week in 1596 when the bubonic plague affects their home. The novel explores how personal tragedy fuels creation
Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet is a luminous reimagining of the life and death of William Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet Shakespeare , and the profound grief that likely inspired one of literature's greatest tragedies, Hamlet . The novel is available in digital formats: :