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Hamnet star Madeleine Mantock: ‘Theatre is not my comfort zone’

The actor on playing William Shakespeare’s wife, and making her West End debut opposite Jennifer Saunders

Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2023

Venus and Adonis: this 'play within a plague' about Shakespeare is wildly romantic, erotic and colourful

Shakespeare wrote his famous narrative poem Venus and Adonis in a lockdown era when, in 1593, the bubonic plague closed the theatres in London for 18 months.

The Conversation · Oct 12, 2023

London Theatre Week 2023 is extended: our pick of the top 10 shows to book from A Strange Loop to The Effect

With cheap tickets on offer these are our recommendations of shows to check out

Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2023

‘They are the crucial buyers’: theatres tap into the power of female readers

The Time Traveler’s Wife and Hamnet are among novels written, and largely read, by women coming to the British stage

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023

Maggie O’Farrell’s award-winning novel 'Hamnet' to be adapted for screen

Irish writer Maggie O’Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2021 for her novel 'Hamnet'. And now, 'Hamnet' will be adapted for into a film by Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao.

The Times of India · Apr 5, 2023

Top 10 books about family secrets

Lies told and truths hidden give compelling life to fiction and memoir by authors from Maggie O’Farrell to Ocean Vuong and Claire Keegan

The Guardian - UK · Jan 18, 2023

RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet

Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2022

Top 10 books about twins

Writers from William Shakespeare to Angela Carter and George RR Martin have been been inspired by the doubled lives of these familial pairs

The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2022

First memorial of Shakespeare’s twins Hamnet and Judith secured by author Maggie O’Farrell

Author Maggie O’Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020 for her novel 'Hamnet' which is inspired by the lesser-known story of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, who died at a young age. Few people knew about Hamnet, who died aged 11 in 1596, and his twin sister, Judith, who died…

The Times of India · May 5, 2022

Shakespeare’s tragic twins memorialised in the Bard’s resting place

Maggie O’Farrell will place rosemary at Stratford grave to honour the lost boy who inspired her novel Hamnet

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022