Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.
A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike the Prince, he cannot ask 'to be or not to be'. Condemned not to be, he now seeks to understand the world from which he has been wrested.
Hamnet is too young to understand Shakespeare. We are too old to understand Hamnet. Two generations, asking each other what they want to pass on and receive.
| ISBN: | 9781786822314 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 2017 |
| Author: | Dead Centre |
| Publisher: | Oberon Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 64 pages |
| Series: | Oberon Modern Plays |
| Genres: |
Plays, playscripts Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Performance art Literary studies: plays and playwrights Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing arts |
Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in 1596, only eleven himself.A single letter separates Hamnet from the philosophical heights of Hamlet. Unlike the Prince, he cannot ask 'to be or not to be'.
Hamnet features in the following genres: Plays, playscripts, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Performance art, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing arts
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Hamnet was written by Dead Centre and published by Oberon Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Hamnet has 64 pages
Yes it is part of Oberon Modern Plays series