{"id":47365,"date":"2020-10-27T11:12:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T15:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47365"},"modified":"2020-10-20T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:40:07","slug":"hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamnet by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47340\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Hamnet-Maggie-OFarrell-BookDragon-538x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Hamnet-Maggie-OFarrell-BookDragon-538x800.jpg 538w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/09\/Hamnet-Maggie-OFarrell-BookDragon.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nHere\u2019s what we might know \u2013 or agree on from limited historic documents and scholarly\u00a0<s>guessing<\/s> research \u2013 about the Bard\u2019s wife: she\u2019s commonly named \u201cAnne Hathaway\u201d but her father referred to her as \u201cAgnes\u201d in his will; she was older than her still-teenage husband; they were pregnant when they married; the pair had three children, Susanna and twins Judith and Hamnet; Shakespeare left his family in Stratford while he wrote and toured; one of the frequent bubonic plague outbreaks killed Hamnet at 11; and Shakespeare would memorialize \u2013 and extend \u2013 the boy\u2019s brief life in <em>Hamlet<\/em>.\u00a0From such \u2018facts,\u2019 bestselling Edinburgh-based Irish writer Maggie O\u2019Farrell <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/seventeen-brushes-death-maggie-ofarrell-library-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(<\/a><em>I Am, I Am, I Am,\u00a0<\/em>2017) imagines stupendous historical fiction, returning Agnes\u2019 voice to the ever-growing Shakespeare-inspired apocryphal library.<\/p>\n<p>Relative newbie but already award-winning British narrator Ell Potter is O\u2019Farrell\u2019s effortless, perfect cipher. She\u2019s notably affecting as Agnes, overwhelmed by love, maternally devoted, achingly betrayed. As Shakespeare, maligned by his vicious father, a part-time husband and parent, she embodies an arrogant artist too soon too sure of his own glory. As Hamnet, she evokes a boy desperate to save his twin sister, who is originally felled by illness.<\/p>\n<p>From a story of two lovers each escaping family dysfunction, to a portrait of a devolving marriage, to the pixilating of familial bonds, to an accounting of <em>the<\/em>\u00a0playwright made successful by personal betrayal, O\u2019Farrell and Potter alchemize aural magic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Hamnet-\/pid=9739221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, October 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Here\u2019s what we might know \u2013 or agree on from limited historic documents and scholarly\u00a0guessing research \u2013 about the Bard\u2019s wife: she\u2019s commonly named \u201cAnne Hathaway\u201d but her father referred to her as \u201cAgnes\u201d in his will; 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