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English
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"A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Recreating everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village, the author focuses on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived and died during the Black Death (1345-50). Hatcher describes the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague.
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