The movie is a fictional reimagining of the life of the Shakespeare’s family, focusing on his daughter Hamnet, who died at a ...

In Hamlet Lives Forever by Horatio Clare, Shakespeare is telling the story of Hamlet to his son Hamnet, who died at the age of eleven. Shakespeare meets Hamnet in an orchard, representing paradise ...

Meanwhile, in August 1596, one of the Shakespeare twins – Hamnet – had died in Stratford at the age of 11. How did Anne and William Shakespeare maintain their long-distance marriage?

It is clever too. Shakespeare is never named. This is a book about a woman and her three children - and their lives are vividly imagined. And it is timely. Plague killed Hamnet in 1596 and there ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to reopen one of its theatres after a three-year closure with a story inspired by the Bard's son. The stage production of writer Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet will ...

a lockdown hit that suggested the loss of the couple’s son Hamnet to plague inspired the writing of Hamlet. Erica Whyman’s production, her swansong after a decade with the Royal Shakespeare ...

His son, Hamnet, died at the age of 11 in 1596, probably from the plague. "Hamlet" was Shakespeare's resulting exploration of fathers and sons, death and grief. There are multiple versions of the ...

Elsewhere, Shakespeare’s seething “spinster” daughter Judith (played by a truly captivating Kathryn Wilder) resents him for his plans to build a garden in honour of her late twin ...