Ophelia (Bloomsbury Educational Editions)

Name: Ophelia
Rating: 4.50 (4 reviews)

by Lisa Klein

4 ratings • 1 review • 14 shelved

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Ophelia (Bloomsbury Educational Editions)

by Lisa Klein

4 ratings • 1 review • 14 shelved

In a story based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia tells of her life in the court at Elsinore, her love for Prince Hamlet, and her escape from the violence in Denmark.

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ISBN10 1582348014
ISBN13 9781582348018
Publish Date 31 October 2006
Publish Status Out of Print
Out of Print 21 July 2021
Publish Country US
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format Hardcover
Pages 328
Language English

Reviews

Founded around a series of what-ifs. What if Ophelia's death was in fact a Romeo-and-Juliet type attempt to get away from the troubles that beset her relationship with Hamlet and in fact she survived to tell her tale? In fact this story mostly reads like Hamlet meets Romeo and Juliet and finishes with a happy ending.

Overall it was interesting to have some of the dialogue from the original interspersed with the story and a greater development of the character of Ophelia but overall it was a bit ho-hum.