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Show all files. Uploaded by Unknown on October 10, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. But by never seeing his name, we aren't distracted by it. Also, I'd like to reiterate that this book is mainly about Agnes. We see W. Shakespeare through her eyes: not the adoring fans, the English royalty, the actors who preformed his plays, but his wife. Agnes sees W.

Shakespeare as her husband and the father of her children first, and the great playwright second. And as I have said, "the great playwright" comes with a whole set of memory cues: calligraphy on yellowed paper, dozens of plays, men and later women in tights and dresses, etc.

By not seeing him portrayed as the great playwright first, we avoid those cues and get to see him as a real person with real attributes and flaws. In essence, we get to see his fictionalized character as a human, not a set of plays. I am confused. Is "Hamnet" the same book as "Hamnet and Judith"? Merrily "Hamnet" was published under the title "Hamnet and Judith" in the U. See all 39 questions about Hamnet….

Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Hamnet. Apr 01, Hannah Greendale rated it it was amazing Shelves: adult , fiction , best-of-the-year , women-s-prize-winner , historical-fiction , women-s-prize-nominee. The rogue book in the lineup usually has unique qualities that manifest either as robust lyricism or as strange yet scintillating content.

It's quite possible Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell is this year's rogue conten Best Books of the Year [ 02 of 11] Quite often, the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist contains one book more fanciful than the rest. It's quite possible Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell is this year's rogue contender. O'Farrell's writing style is a lyrical dreamscape. Where the average author mentions the presence of kittens, O'Farrell writes of kittens " with faces like pansies and soft pads on their paws.

Unfortunately, the rogue book filled with lyricism rarely makes the shortlist. And this year's judges have already stated they're looking for a winner that's relevant and timely, so Hamnet - which ventures to convey the perilous days during which William Shakespeare's young children struggle to survive the Black Death - at first seemed like it wasn't a contender for the shortlist, having no relevance to the modern day.

That's no longer the case. Verdict: Hamnet is a devastating book, as upsetting and vivid as the current global pandemic. An absolute must read. It is to him she speaks in her disordered mind, not the trees, not the magic cross, not the patterns and markings of lichen, not even to her mother, who died while trying to give birth to a child. Please, she says to him, inside the chamber of her skull, please come back. I need you. I should never have schemed to send you away. Make sure this child has safe passage; make sure it lives; make sure I survive to care for it.

Let us both come through this. Let me not die. Let me not end up cold and stiff in a bloodied bed. View all 97 comments. Feb 07, Roman Clodia rated it it was ok Shelves: skim-read-to-end. I'm clearly in a minority here again! There's too much indirect speech and the whole story feels very distanced rather than immediate.

O'Farrell talks in the foreword about how she's wanted to write this book for decades, and the result is that it feels laboured, weighted down with expectation that doesn't come to fruition for me. I especially hated the portrayal of Agnes as one of those almost witchy 'wise women' who abound in historical fiction: fey, wit I'm clearly in a minority here again!

I especially hated the portrayal of Agnes as one of those almost witchy 'wise women' who abound in historical fiction: fey, with preternatural senses, a herbalist as a code for 'female' power The vaunted connection to Shakespeare is tangential at best, and the idea that the death of Hamnet illuminates the writing of 'Hamlet' is sparse.

A book which is not for me, then, but clearly other reviewers have loved it. View all comments. Debra It was a relief to read your review, and that of the others who do not rate or did not enjoy this book. I agree with every point you make, and while t It was a relief to read your review, and that of the others who do not rate or did not enjoy this book. I agree with every point you make, and while there were brief flashes of clever insight and observation, there was far too much that struck me as trite.

I did like the characterisation of Shakespeare himself, though - it somehow chimed with the idea of him that I carry, so that's probably why! Jan Phew! I thought it was just me. Overwritten, overwrought and melodramatic I already used. There are, however, still all of these: superfluous, ornate, overly lyrical, flowery, meandering, long-winded, cliche-laden, monotone, repetitive, sentimental, pretentious, and simply overdone. When one word would suffice, twelve will be used.

See, I can do a metaphor, too! I blame the metaphor. No good will come of it, her father says, standing over Agnes as she crouches by the fire, no good at all. When she reaches up to take his hand, he snatches it away. She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange.

She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

This book had enough artistic license to breathe life into her — and yet it chose to go with a cliche upon cliche. About anything. It's a gift or a curse, depending on who you ask. Even our titular character, the unfortunate Hamnet, is barely a sketch of a boy, making it hard to care for him and his ultimate fate. Seriously, plague outbreaks were a common occurrence at that time. Who cares how that particular one got there? At least the chapter woke me up from snoozing over this book monotony - but still unnecessary.

To it, the town appears as a series of rooftops, with gullies of streets in between, a place to be navigated. The massed leaves of trees present themselves as it flies, the stray wisps of smoke from idle fires. I just could not connect with them. It made me feel detached from them, always observing from a distance but never feeling or caring on a deeper level. I like my magical realism as much, or actually probably more, than the next person, but what was the point of incorporating this here?

Someone who can just look at you and divine your deepest secrets, just with a glance. Someone who can tell what you are about to say — and what you might not — before you say it. Also, what was the point of mentioning Hamnet having been hit by his grandfather when Judith fell ill, all the references to the cut above his eyebrow, and no payoff? I was half-waiting for the damn cut to get infected and kill him instead of a plague.

Why see it as an offense and not a loving tribute? What happened to all those apples that needed to be stored properly but were all disturbed during that cringeworthy barn sex scene? Did they all spoil? And that climax was as underwhelming as one could only imagine, hinging on weak and tenuous connections and completely out-of-character observations by Agnes, and existed because it was supposed to, regardless of whether it felt organic to the story.

She will say all this to her husband, later, after the play has ended, after the final silence has fallen, after the dead have sprung up to take their places in the line of players at the edge of the stage. I no longer cared what would happen, only how long it would take me to reach the end of the book. Overwritten, overwrought, overhyped.

Your review covered it for me. Well said. Tom Hardin Seems the Author has the audacity to be creative about a much discussed set of unknowns and finally comes to the realization that her husband Will has Seems the Author has the audacity to be creative about a much discussed set of unknowns and finally comes to the realization that her husband Will has his own creative way to remember his beloved son Hamnet thh Jul 29, Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing.

Hamnet was wonderful. It grabbed me from the start I did Great book to go in blind. The writing i Hamnet was wonderful. The writing is gorgeous The story is sad I was so close to bawling in one part , filled with loss and grief And I repeat View all 47 comments. I have to admit that I was a little nervous going into this one for two reasons.

I sometimes have a hard time with fictionalized accounts of real people. The bard himself is not the main character on this stage. His name is not mentioned once. He is the son of John and Mary, the husband of Agnes, the father of Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith, but never called by name.

The focus is not on his plays, except for one, titled after his son Hamnet, who in the book dies at eleven of the plague. Her story begins in an is almost fairy tale like way, as a girl belonging to a forest, remembering her mother, learning the power of plants and the meaning of her premonitions. She meets the Latin tutor, son of the glove maker and when they marry, she moves to Henley Street in Stratford with him.

Life in these times and in this place feels historically accurate, even if we really never will know the details of their family life, the death of their son. I felt a warm connection knowing that I had been there once.

I received an advanced copy of this book from Knopf Random House through Edelweiss. Aug 07, Jenna rated it liked it Shelves: historical-fic.

Unpopular opinion ahead I had no desire to read Hamnet when I first heard of it. Shakespeare gets married, they have kids, one dies, he writes "Hamlet". Nope, not interested. Then several of my friends wrote amazing reviews and reeled me in. I was still hesitant but thought, Why not? Just give it a try and DNF if it's not interesting. Let me tell you. In the beginning I was mesmerized by Maggie O'Farrell's writing.

The descriptions made everything so vivid, the setting and characters leapt off the Unpopular opinion ahead I had no desire to read Hamnet when I first heard of it. The descriptions made everything so vivid, the setting and characters leapt off the page. Wow, I thought, I can see why everyone loves this so much!

Unfortunately, as quickly as I fell in love with Ms. O'Farrell's writing, I just as quickly fell back out of love. Partly this was due to the story itself failing to interest me as it progressed. I was thinking of DNF'ing but then came the flea! Who'd have thought a flea could be so interesting! I couldn't get enough of that little bugger, as it made its way from Alexandria, Egypt to Stratford, England.

So intent on surviving and sucking blood and unwittingly spreading pestilence. I gotta give Maggie O'Farrell credit for that, for turning a tiny, nasty, virus-carrying flea into an interesting character. That takes talent. Sadly, I wasn't as taken in by all of the story. There were places I was immersed but then I'd go pages and pages wishing the book would just end already. Maybe I'm cold but I have little patience for books intent on maximizing the tear factor.

If you have more of a heart than I apparently do, and if you're a fan of historical fiction, you will probably love this book. It's written beautifully and descriptively. It tells not so much about Shakespeare who is never mentioned by name but about his wife and children. Not much is known about any of them yet Maggie O'Farrell brings them to life with her vivid imagination and meticulous writing.

It probably deserves the 4 and 5 stars I've seen everyone else give it, but I was bored through too much of it to grant it any more than 3. View all 98 comments. Andrea Jenna wrote: "Andrea wrote: "I think people who are hoping to learn something about Shakespeare are surely going to be disappointed with this novel. I Jenna wrote: "Andrea wrote: "I think people who are hoping to learn something about Shakespeare are surely going to be disappointed with this novel.

Jenna Andrea wrote: "Okay, the flea was good. Andrea wrote: "Okay, the flea was good. Cruelty and devastation wait for you around corners, inside coffers, behind doors: they can leap out at you at any moment, like a thief or brigand.

There are a lot more positives to this than there are negatives, after all. Agnes, however, is front and center, and what absorbed me fully was the theme of motherhood — the joys, the doubts, the fears, the sorrows. A mother constantly questions whether she is doing enough for her children. There looms a certainty that surely you could do more if you only tried harder. Agnes is of another realm entirely, it seems. She reminded me of a sprite, so ethereal in nature. She learns to divine truths about the essence of others based on what she can glean from their hands.

The sensation, some said, was dizzying, draining, as if she was drawing all the strength out of you; others said it was invigorating, enlivening, like a shower of rain. I remember when my children were young and some illness or another would strike. Surely, I thought, I could be doing more to relieve their suffering. Never think you are safe. She understands foreboding, fear, and heartache.

She writes what she knows with clarity. What I missed, however, was a complete connection to her words. I should have been weeping buckets! I went into this one expecting the same. Had I not read the other first, I suspect I would have had a bigger soft spot for Hamnet.

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