Summary of Hamnet by Maggie O'farrell

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England, 1580: The Black Death spreads over the country, posing a constant threat to the healthy, sick, elderly, and young equally. The end of the world is approaching, yet life continues on. A young Latin tutor falls in love with an unusual, quirky young woman despite being impoverished and being harassed by his abusive father.

Agnes is a wild creature that travels her family's farm with a falcon on her glove and is well-known across the countryside for her extraordinary healing abilities, knowing plants and potions better than people. She becomes a passionately protective mother and a staunch, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is only getting started when his adored little son succumbs to a severe fever once they have settled on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C.B. Publishers
• Release date: Jul 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005326890

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OVERVIEW

Maggie O'Farrell, an Irish-British novelist, wrote Hamnet, a historical fiction novel, in 2020. It fictionalizes William Shakespeare's family's existence between the death of his son Hamnet in 1596 and the composition of Hamlet about 1600. Hamnet was named the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, a major literary prize in the United Kingdom.

SUMMARY

The novel alternates between two storylines. The first recounts the circumstances leading up to Hamnet's death in 1596, while the second recounts the events leading up to Hamnet's birth.

The tale begins with Hamnet, eleven, learning that his twin sister, Judith, is sick with a fever and buboes, or egg-shaped bulges beneath her skin. He looks for the doctor and his mother Agnes, who is a healer, but they are both gone. While his father, a playwright, is abroad in London, his grandparents are too preoccupied.

When Agnes and the doctor arrive, the doctor believes Judith will pass away. Agnes, a more effective healer than the physician, tries all of the medicines she knows to help her daughter. The family is ignorant that Judith's illness was caused by a remote encounter between a Venetian glass dealer and a flea that fell from a monkey's back in Alexandria, Egypt.

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