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n as an escape route from an unhappy marriage as well as leaning heavily on our knowledge of the kind of thing women of that period were likely to have done in which she includes wine making and herbal medicine greer makes full use of the absence of evidence there is after all no firm evidence that anne was illiterate all her life surely the poet she was married to and who had punned on her name in a sonnet would at least have encouraged her to learn to read and if she could read might she have been the addressee of some of the sonnets the fair youth whose attractions are counterposed to the aloof and imperious dark lady perhaps the marriage may have been unhappy but it may not in the absence of evidence either way why shouldn t we assume an affectionate and supportive relationship albeit one mostly conducted at a distance there are no surviving letters from shakespeare to anne admittedly but then there are no surviving letters from shakespeare to anyone conversely the lack of any correspondence with anne may indicate that shakespeare didn t send any money home which in turn would mean that anne must have been raising a bit of money by her own efforts perhaps she brewed beer for sale as well as for her household perhaps she grew mulberries kept silkworms and spun silk we just don t know 5 rewind but that s the problem we don t know we don t know any of it we ve got no evidence that anne could read and if she couldn t of course the lack of correspondence with her husband wouldn t be an issue we ve got no firm evidence that the relationship was affectionate and supportive or that it wasn t in the cosmically unlikely event that a record of anne shakespeare s daily routine in the late 1590s were to be found i d be astonished if it didn t include both brewing and breadmaking but we can t be that confident about anything else my chickens and fruit trees greer s herbal medicine and silkworms it s all speculation it s all not to put too fine a point on it made up as for catholic will a ghostly emissary from purgatory as written by a believing catholic would surely be recognised as such by the grieving son who witnesses him in hamlet whether the ghost is the ghost of hamlet s father is a major plot point is hamlet losing his mind might it be a demonic visitation trying to lure hamlet into sin again what you d expect a visitor from purgatory to do is yearn for heaven and ask for his son s prayers not to yearn for and ask his son to carry out bloody eye for an eye vengeance whatever shakespeare s religious beliefs may have been hamlet doesn t provide evidence of orthodox catholicism nor is there any evidence that shakespeare was the william shakeshaft mentioned in alexander hoghton s 1581 will in fact it seems highly unlikely given that a shakespeare would have been 17 at the time b lancashire was an awfully long way away from stratford upon avon and c there s no need to assume that shakeshaft was a pseudonym at all as it was a local surname as for john shakespeare s testament well show me john shakespeare s testament i can t put too much weight on telling pieces of evidence that have disappeared shakespeare may not even have been the upstart crow that greene wrote about in which case the lost years extend to 1594 he s certainly not the only candidate the absence of evidence problem returns here if the passage was about shakespeare this would suggest that shakespeare was reasonably well known at the time well enough to be worth lampooning but the argument cuts both ways we could equally argue that the passage should be read as applying to someone we know to have been well known and as such that it probably wasn t about shakespeare a shake scene could be an actor just as much as a playwright after all an actor who had starred in henry vi part 3 perhaps as the sceptical commentator linked to above asks if you saw somebody being attacked with the words so go ahead _____ make my day would the name you put in the blank space be joseph it was joseph stinson who wrote that line after all we seem to have come a long way to end up with very little and that s no fun at all 6 fast forward i m not saying that o farrell should just have written about an illiterate farmer s daughter who stayed at home and brewed beer while her semi estranged husband was knocking around with actors hack writers and aristocratic patrons in that london even if that is how i d ultimately sum up the anne shakespeare story i wouldn t choose to make anne hathaway literate and give her a brewing business which is why my book about her would be a lot shorter than germaine greer s but that doesn t mean it s not a legitimate interpretation both capable anne and catholic will are good stories you could get quite quite an interesting drama out of putting them together and one which as greenblatt shows might well have the death of hamnet at the centre of it put that lot on screen and while it would definitely irk the purists a raised eyebrow and a muttered well maybe would be as bad as it got i wouldn t be raving about it but it wouldn t have positively annoyed me but then i m not sure anyone else would be raving about it either ben elton s all is true filled in the gaps in the story of the shakespeare family in some interesting ways and nobody remembers that what annoys me about hamnet is not so much that it took the catholic will and capable anne speculations as its starting point but that it built on them and how it built on them and i m afraid that in many cases it s those additions that have given the film popular appeal thinking about it subsequently i ve been reminded of sixth form latin sometimes after translating a line of poetry i d look again and find i had a word left over i d fit it into my translation somehow and as often as not the teacher would sigh and say but how could that possibly be right coincidentally the latin class scene in the film is a small example of what i m talking about we see teenage will tutoring a group of boys in latin he does this by giving them a brief passage to read and having them read it out which fair enough might form part of latin tuition reading a foreign language out loud is a good test of whether you understand how the language fits together or you re just decoding a syllable at a time it would be more usual for the teacher to ask the student to translate what they d just read though in this case not only do the students not translate the latin they all read the latin passage together like a choral reading of a latin grace you too which college i can t imagine any reason for doing this to get any pedagogical benefit out of simple reading you d surely want to do it one student at a time when they get to the end of the passage moreover they start again and read the same passage over and over rendering an already pointless exercise completely meaningless that s not right how could that possibly be right 7 i am not prince hamnet nor was meant to be a much more significant rewrite or embellishment is represented by the climactic scene in which agnes joins the audience for a production of hamlet the play hamlet the character of prince hamlet and the name hamnet are at the heart of stephen greenblatt s extended version of the catholic will speculation for greenblatt hamlet and hamlet s encounter with the ghost were significant for catholic will in a whole variety of interconnected ways the ghost s references to purgatory show that shakespeare still believed in it and was hence a catholic the scene dramatises the pressure shakespeare felt to remain true to john shakespeare s religious beliefs swear the scene expressed shakespeare s fear that hamnet having died without catholic rites was now in purgatory the scene dramatises the purgatorial state shakespeare felt that he was in as a bereaved father hamlet s indecision dramatises shakespeare s uncertainty over whether to have masses said for hamnet hamlet s indecision and his inaction for most of the play represent a new development for shakespeare who now for the first time was dramatising states of mind and thought processes this was brought to a head by the thought of hamnet s death and anglican burial which gave him a newly heightened awareness of the complexity of his own state of mind you have to buy into catholic will for most of this to make sense if you think as i ve suggested earlier that the ghost s references to purgatory don t suggest catholicism on shakespeare s part the rest of the ideas put forward here tend to drop away but they re interesting ideas the last may be the strongest at least up to the semi colon greenblatt makes a very good case for the progressively more sensitive and adventurous dramatisation of mental states in shakespeare s plays drawing examples from richard iii and julius caesar as well as hamlet but that in itself is a separate question from the effect of the death of hamnet on the plays having said all of that whether or not the ghost is in purgatory doesn t figure in hamnet o farrell retains greenblatt s focus on a hamlet hamnet connection without adopting his speculations about what that connection was which is a problem remember hamlet is a revenge tragedy an addition to the genre of the spanish tragedy the white devil the changeling the courier s tragedy et al it s the story of a young man who wants to avenge himself on his uncle for killing his father and marrying his mother and in the play s great innovation spends most of the play not taking revenge but gathering evidence going mad with grief and rage or both the bridge that greenblatt builds from the inwardness and indecision of prince hamlet to the clandestinity of recusant catholics in elizabethan england is long and rickety but it is arguable at least if you accept the idea of shakespeare as a recusant o farrell needs there to be a bridge from hamlet dead father betrayed son indecision madness revenge to the death of hamnet considered in non religious terms as the death from illness of an eleven year old boy and it s not at all clear to me what that bridge could be what we end up with is in effect shakespeare is to hamnet as the ghost is to hamlet i e his father closely followed by hamnet was a lovely boy who is now dead and so was hamlet these analogies are set up by the staging of hamlet in the scene at the globe which is highly selective and distorted we don t see hamlet we see act 1 scene 5 ghost appears followed in short order by act 5 scene 2 hamlet dies we don t even see much of the scene with the ghost who appears less as a figure of agonised horror than as a solemn admirer of the young prince as one commentator put it playing the role of the ghost of hamlet s father will gets to say goodbye to his son on stage as he never did in life fair enough except that the one thing the ghost had not returned to do was to say goodbye i also couldn t believe in the groundlings not heckling and talking among themselves but standing in dignified silence shushing agnes when she starts to talk back or for that matter in agnes instantly recognising the youthful but clearly adult figure of hamlet as the image of hamnet there is some warrant for having shakespeare take the part of the ghost as the film shows him doing nicholas rowe says that shakespeare did this in his 1709 some account of the life of mr william shakespear although citing rowe as an authority on shakespeare s acting career is a bit like citing a 21st century writer as an authority on vesta tilley but the relationship of will shakespeare to hamnet is unlike that of the ghost to hamlet in just about every conceivable way beginning with which of the two of them is dead and while hamlet is a young man and the play does need him to die at the end the play isn t in any sense about a young man dying in short these analogies strike me as facile at best at worst as going directly against what the play hamlet actually says and does in passing the collective happening that erupts at the end of the scene giving collective expression to the feeling that it s very sad when a young man dies was down to buckley not o farrell or zhao there was no hands reaching out there was no hamnet there was nothing so it was all kind of being discovered in real time i was driving home and max richter s on the nature of daylight came on my podcast and it just cracked something in me and i sent it to chloe and the two of us met in the morning and i said to her i just realized i am amongst 300 people who all have their own private grief or life a woman then worked with the extras on set meditated with them and gave them permission to bring their grief to the space buckley said which led to them all reaching out with their hands mark kermode was less complimentary about the use of on the nature of daylight calling it a major mis step the piece is used prominently in arrival and features in shutter island the last of us and the handmaid s tale i imagine that max richter himself who had written the score for hamnet including a choral piece intended for that scene was at least a bit puzzled but in any case beyond the bare fact that a father looks at his son in one scene and the son dies in the other this reading of those two scenes really has nothing to do with hamlet it can t possibly be right as a reading of the play which is a problem when you re writing about that play s author 8 william shakespeare lust for glory tutor will who we met earlier seems to be a vestige of greenblatt s catholic will although in the film he hadn t gone far from home it s while he s conducting that dubious latin lesson that he first sees agnes but there aren t many other traces in the film john shakespeare appears but only as an overbearing brute who wants his son to see sense buckle down and make some bloody gloves this is after we ve seen tutor will in action although he was a pretty rubbish tutor so maybe his father had a point what we get instead is more of a hollywood will a talented unknown who makes it to the big time from humble beginnings not seeing shakespeare in london is fair enough it s agnes s story after all the trouble is we don t get any sense of how shakespeare s career as a writer developed and that is a problem as that s also the story of how he came to grow apart or at least live apart from anne the most plausible reconstruction is that he started acting left home to act full time and after several years graduated to being an actor manager and a writer as a writer he mixed with other writers who competed collaborated borrowed and stole as writers do and found himself patronage as writers did after several years of this shakespeare began to stand out from the crowd and what made him stand out was his work rate rather like david bowie in the beckenham arts lab if you ll excuse the analogy shakespeare was doing the same kind of thing as his peers but at a higher quality and higher volume he was writing more and better material and reading a lot more off the stage...
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