Read and discuss the prize-winning Hamnet - the story of Shakespeare's son and family
Highlights
- Join this English book group and gain extra motivation to read in English
- 7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
- Discuss Shakespeare, Elizabethan times and a family dealing with illness and loss
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book group course using Maggie O'Farrell's modern classic, Hamnet. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times
Hamnet is the story of Shakespeare's family. It's 1596 and Judith is unwell with a fever in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hamnet, her twin brother, knows it's serious and looks for help. His mother, Agnes, is tending her medicinal herbs. Their father, William Shakespeare, is working in the theatre in London. The parents don't know that one of their twins will not survive.
Hamnet is the story of family, the powerful bond between twins, of a marriage under immense strain. But it also gives a powerful voice to Agnes (Anne) Hathaway, who William, a glovemaker's son, falls in love with against social convention. And it is an unforgettable imagining of a boy whose name lives on in "Hamlet" - one of the world's greatest plays.
Geoff says:
"This book is an incredible work of fiction. Little is known of Shakespeare's family life, but Maggie O'Farrell gives it to us in all it's beauty and heartbreak. This book was the Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, and the Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards."
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| Age | 18+ |
| Online class size | Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion |
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