"Longing to Stay Tied: Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as a Work of Creative Criticism"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo392/
Author:
	Muse, Amy.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2023
Publication Information:
	Comparative Drama 57, no. 1-2 (2023): 9–27.
DOI:
	10.1353/cdr.2023.a904530
Annotation:
	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).
Language:
	English
Cross-References:
	O'Farrell, Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague
Persons:
	O'Farrell, Maggie; Hathaway, Anne; Shakespeare, Hamnet
Tags:
	Biographical Studies, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Shakespeare as Influence, Shakespeare in Literature
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo392