Hamnet
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Hamnet
By (Author) Dead Centre
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
1st July 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
Performance art
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing arts
Physical Properties
Paperback
64
Width 130mm, Height 210mm
68g
Description
Dead Centres new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeares 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.
Author Bio
Dead Centre were founded in 2012 in Dublin by Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd. In their work, Moukarzel and Kidd play with theatrical conventions whilst also creating a commentary on their own work and on the possibility of art.
