FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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His theater burned down.
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His young son died.
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His acting career never took off.
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He didn’t love his wife.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Not long after losing his son, William wrote “The Tragedy of Hamlet, ” a play about the depths of grief and the impossible quest for justice.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Hamlet remains to this day the most popular and the most produced of all of Shakespeare’s plays. It is considered to be one of the most influential tragedies in English literature as well as the most powerful.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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.