Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ (and 2): origin and evolution of the story of the Prince of Denmark leading up to Chloé Zhao’s film
This is a story about how originality is a hybrid, drawing from many sources. We recall the genealogy of this classic, whose primary source is a medieval legend, revived by the film adaptation of the novel that fictionalizes Shakespeare's inspiration for ‘Hamlet’ from the death of his only son, Hamnet. It all begins with the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice