I have seen a plethora of commentaries on Hamnet that boil down to one belief: The film is made up and therefore a film they can dismiss. While much of William Shakespeare’s life is actually “unknown,” I do believe that Shakespeare himself would love that a novel about his life was something of fanfic. And my thesis is based in facts!
William Shakespeare is known for distinctly different kinds of fiction. He has his tragedies, his comedies, and his histories. There are other bits of Shakespeare’s work but for the purpose of this argument, we’ll focus on these three. Obviously both the tragedies and the comedies are works of fiction created by Shakespeare but I also hate to break it to you that his history are also fiction. Much like Hamnet.
