'Hamnet' gives life to Shakespeare's little-known son
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Hamlet the Boy and Shakespeare's Hamlet
Maggie o'farrell's new novel is titled hamnet. She says the play was written in response to the loss of a boy who died four years before Shakespeare wrote it. O'farrell never uses shakespeare's name because she wanted people to think about him as a human being, rather than that we know him as.
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