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Agnes prepares Hamnet for his burial. With Mary’s assistance, she makes a winding sheet for him. As Judith cries over her twin, Agnes is heartbroken when she has to tell her that he will never come back.
The husband returns to Stratford surprised to see that Judith survived and Hamnet is dead. At the funeral, he bears his son’s weight and lowers him into the earth at his riverside grave.
The family is mired in grief, and Agnes is angry at her husband for not being present. Although he is devastated by the loss of his son, he wishes to return to the playhouse in London and his company. A perplexed Agnes insists that he stay and accuses him of being caught by “the place in your head”—the land of his imagination which is more real to him than any real-life place (240). He leaves them and says that he hopes to return before Christmas.
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