FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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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.
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: -Hamnet may be a footnote in history but he was in fact William Shakespeare’s only son. He died at just 11 years old – largely abandoned by his famous father, who was making his name in London – in 1596.
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.