Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 57 IS - 1-2 T2 - Comparative Drama SP - 9-27 ID - bbbo392 T1 - "Longing to Stay Tied: Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as a Work of Creative Criticism" AU - Muse, Amy PY - 2023 DA - 2026 DO - 10.1353/cdr.2023.a904530 LA - English AB - Positions Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet (q.v.) as a work of "creative criticism" that "reaches for what we’re really after: an encounter with the inner life of Shakespeare." Suggests that O'Farrell interprets Hamlet as a memento vivere (instead of a memento mori) for his lost son, Hamnet, written for Anne Hathaway (Agnes, in the novel). ER -