哈姆奈特：莎士比亚的悲剧

THERE IS VERY little we know about William Shakespeare. The few facts we do have about the playwright have been gleaned from patchy oral histories and written public records. One indisputable truth is that he had a son named Hamnet, who died aged 11, in 1596, most likely of plague. Three years later, Shakespeare wrote his most famous play, Hamlet. It’s this curious near-forgotten nugget of personal history which gave rise to Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 historical-fiction novel Hamnet. …