ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hamnet died when he was eleven years old due to unknown causes, though possibly from the bubonic plague.

Detailed explanation-2: -Set in Stratford, England, in the late 16th century, Hamnet imagines the emotional, domestic, and artistic repercussions after the world’s most famous (though never named) playwright and his wife lose their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, to the bubonic plague in 1596.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In 1596, William Shakespeare’s only son, Hamnet, died from the bubonic plague in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was 11 years old and contracted the disease from his twin sister, Judith, who survived the illness.

Detailed explanation-5: -About that family, whose surname we never learn: a brief introductory explanation reminds us that Shakespeare and his wife, Anne Hathaway, lost a son named Hamnet to the bubonic plague.