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Hamnet would have been raised mainly by his mother Anne and his grandparents John and Mary Shakespeare, in their house in Henley Street.

He probably did not know his father very well as William lived and worked in London, most of the time, visiting his family in Stratford only occasionally. By the time Hamet was four his father was already famous, and as his career and business interests grew he was kept busy in London. Hamnet died when he was eleven years old, in August 1596, due to unknown causes., It’s thought that he possibly died from the bubonic plague that killed around one-third of all children below the age of twelve in Elizabethan England.Īside from these basic facts, little is known about the life of Hamnet Shakespeare. Hamnet was given the name ‘Sadler’ as a second name. The twins (Hamnet and Judith) were baptized on 2 February 1585 and named after two very close friends of the Shakespeare’s: the Stratford baker, Hamnet Sadler, and his wife, Judith.

Hamnet Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in January 1585. Hamnet Shakespeare was the son of actor, theatre manager and playwright, William Shakespeare, the twin brother of Judith Shakespeare (later Quiney), and a young brother of Susanna Shakespeare (later Hall). Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale

This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.