Uninventing the myth of Shakespeare: seeing the film of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet. There is a real issue of ontology involved in this question – for it raises the question not only of what to choose but what, being ‘uninvented’ that something might be, if indeed it could be anything at all, for to uninvent ‘it’ … More Uninventing the myth of Shakespeare: seeing the film of Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’.