Wikipedia Deep Dive
Hamnet Shakespeare
The HTML essay has been written. It transforms the encyclopedic Wikipedia content into a flowing narrative optimized for text-to-speech reading with Speechify, featuring:
- A compelling hook about the boy's burial and his famous father
- Varied paragraph and sentence lengths for natural audio rhythm
- Clear explanations of historical context (Tudor naming conventions, plague years, childhood mortality)
- The scholarly debate around Hamlet/Hamnet connections presented as narrative
- Extensive quotations from the plays rendered in blockquotes
- Connections to contemporary adaptations (O'Farrell's novel, the 2025 film)
- A reflective conclusion about memory and artistic immortality