Characters in Hamnet

Agnes Hathaway

A healer and keeper of bees who marries the Latin tutor who will become a playwright; her son Hamnet's sudden death from plague devastates the family.

Judith Shakespeare

Hamnet's twin sister, who falls gravely ill first and later blames herself for his death.

Susanna Shakespeare

Agnes and the playwright's elder daughter, not a twin.

Anne Hathaway