What is Hamnet Shakespeare?
{{Infobox person | name = Hamnet Shakespeare | image = Shakespeare's family circle (Hamnet).jpg | birth_date = {{circa}} January 1585 | birth_place = [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], England | death_date = {{circa}} 9 August 1596 (aged 11) | death_place = [[Stratford-upon-Avon]], England | parents = [[William Shakespeare]]<br/> (father)<br/> Anne Hathaway<br/> (mother) }} '''Hamnet Shakespeare''' ({{circa}} January 1585{{spnd}}{{circa}} 9 August 1596) was the only son of [[William Shakespeare]] and [[Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare)|Anne Hathaway]]. He was the [[twin]] brother of [[Judith Quiney|Judith Shakespeare]].<ref name=EKC_baptism>{{cite book | last = Chambers | first = Edmund Kerchever | authorlink = Edmund Kerchever Chambers | title = William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems | url = https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.182554 | publisher = Clarendon Press | location = Oxford | year = 1930 | oclc = 353406 | quote = A daughter Susanna was baptized on 26 May 1583, and followed by twins, Hamnet and Judith, on 2 February 1585. Guesses at godparents are idle where common names, such as Shakespeare's own, are concerned. But those of the twins, which are unusual, point to Hamnet or Hamlet Sadler, a baker of Stratford, and his wife Judith. | page = I. p.18 }}</ref><ref name=SS_baptism>{{cite book | last = Schoenbaum | first = Samuel | authorlink = Samuel Schoenbaum | title = William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life | url = https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea0000scho | publisher = Clarendon Press | location = Oxford | year = 1987 | isbn = 0195051610 | quote = […] the twins were christened […] on 2 February 1585. Richard Barton of Coventry […] officiated[.] | page = [https://archive.org/details/williamshakespea0000scho/page/94 94] }}</ref><ref name=EKC_burial>Chambers, I. p.21. “[…] Hamnet was buried at Stratford on 11 August 1596.”</ref><ref name=SS_burial>{{cite book | last =