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Maggie O'Farrell

Hamnet 

Royal Shakespeare Company
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09 May 2023
Hamnet (photograph by Manuel Harlan).
Written prior to the onset of Covid-19, Maggie O’Farrell’s novelistic reimagining of the life and death (in the plague) of Shakespeare’s son was presciently published at the end of March 2020, as the United Kingdom entered lockdown. Three years, and one and a half million sales, later, Hamnet is being made into a film. ... (read more)

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

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November 2022, no. 448
Amy Walters reviews 'The Marriage Portrait' by Maggie O’Farrell

In her ninth novel, The Marriage Portrait, British writer Maggie O’Farrell engages with the enduring speculation that Lucrezia de’ Medici, daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo de’ Medici, was murdered in 1561 by her husband Alfonso II D’Este, the duke of Ferrara.

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