Kyle’s Reviews > Hamnet > Status Update

Forget everything you think you know about William Shakespeare and his wife Anne. Instead live the virtual life of a force of nature named Agnes and the Latin tutor who knocked her up. The story starts with the final days of the eponymous boy who so far barely matters in the story of pestilence descending upon the gruff old glover’s home with intermittent glimpses of when Agnes was wooed away from her native woods.