To the Editors: I very much enjoyed Stephen Greenblatt’s authoritative review of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet [NYR, January 14]. However, I was surprised that Greenblatt did not point out one egregious factual error about the Bard in the book. In her author’s note, O’Farrell writes, “The Black Death or ‘pestilence,’ as it would have been […]
Pestilence & the Bard
