ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth was married twice, to Thomas Nash in 1626, and to John Barnard in 1649. She had no children by either husband. Hamnet died at the age of 11 and was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon on 11 August 1596.

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: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The agreed facts are that Hamnet was indeed twin brother to Shakespeare’s second daughter, Judith, and that he died at the age of 11. He was buried in the churchyard at Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon in the summer of 1596, one of the most productive years of his father’s early London career.