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: Agnes is portrayed as an unconventional woman with a talent for medicinal herbs. Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell.epub
: The book portrays loss. One section describes a mother's "emotional feelers" reaching for her children. From Tragedy to Art in Hamnet : The EPUB version is available on platforms
: The novel highlights the women in the Shakespeare family. The Nature of Grief in Hamnet Hamnet later dies from the fever at age 11
: Hamnet's twin sister, Judith, first becomes ill. Hamnet later dies from the fever at age 11.
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 plot follows the courtship of Agnes and her husband and the week in 1596 when the bubonic plague affects their home.