Hamnet review " slick adaptation captures Shakespeare's horrified unravelling
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonLolita Chakrabarti's staging of Maggie O'Farrell's moving novel about the death of the playwright's son " and his resurrection in Hamlet " is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line It is not only the tragically short life of William Shakespeare's son that lies at the heart of Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel, Hamnet, but also that of his wife, Agnes Hathaway, of whom…