: The novel highlights the women in the Shakespeare family. The Nature of Grief in Hamnet
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: Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell.epub
: Agnes is portrayed as an unconventional woman with a talent for medicinal herbs. : The novel highlights the women in the Shakespeare family
: Check availability through the Open Library . Maggie O'Farrell on 'Hamnet' " "the husband
The novel focuses on Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare. He is referred to as "the father," "the husband," or "the Latin tutor".