ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hamnet died at the age of 11 and was buried in the churchyard at Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 August 1596. The cause of death was not routinely recorded in the parish records, so Hamnet’s death is unknown and it is not clear whether his father was able to attend his funeral in Stratford.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars have pointed to the constant outbreaks of bubonic plague during this period and assumed that Hamnet contracted the disease. But in All Is True, the writer Ben Elton imagined that Hamnet might have drowned in a Stratford pool.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s Parents and Siblings He was granted a Coat of Arms in 1596, elevating him and his heirs to the official status of gentlemen. When William was born in 1564, his parents had already lost two infant daughters. Joan died within the first few weeks of her life, and Margaret died a year after she was born.

Detailed explanation-4: -When she was a teenager, Irish-born novelist Maggie O’Farrell became smitten with the works of William Shakespeare. While studying “Hamlet, ” she was haunted by the brief life of the playwright’s only son, Hamnet, who died at age 11, possibly of bubonic plague.