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Nutshell is the 14th novel by English author and screenwriter Ian McEwan published in 2016. It alludes to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and re- imagines the plot from the perspective of an eight-month-old unborn foetus in London in 2015.
The novel centres around the themes of betrayal, love, hopelessness and the complexities of human relationships. Nevertheless, there is a dark humorous tone throughout the novel which is implemented through McEwan use of playful and witty descriptions.
The allusions to Hamlet are made notable from the epigraph which quotes a line from Act II Scene II in Hamlet " Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams."
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