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    Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
    Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
    Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
    Audiobook4 hours

    Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story

    Written by Lisa Fiedler

    Narrated by Charlotte Parry

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    About this audiobook

    Lisa Fiedler gives a feminine twist to Shakespeare's Hamlet with Dating Hamlet, which garnered rave reviews from KLIATT, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Hamlet's uncle Claudius has murdered his father and overtaken the throne. Ophelia, Hamlet's girlfriend, takes an active role in Hamlet's quest for revenge. She'll do anything--including feign madness--to help Hamlet get Claudius to admit his atrocities. ...highly imaginative, lyrical text that plays with the story without damaging it.-School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2008
    ISBN9781436162098
    Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
    Author

    Lisa Fiedler

    Lisa Fiedler is the author of many novels for children and young adults. She divides her time between Connecticut and the Rhode Island seashore, where she lives happily with her very patient husband, her brilliant and beloved daughter, and their two incredibly spoiled golden retrievers.

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    • 4/5
      This was a very sweet read. I have not read the original work, Hamlet, but I found that it was not necessary to understand or enjoy this book. I am sure, however, that those who have read the original can enjoy this book on a different level. The book focuses on Ophelia and her deep devotion to her love, Hamlet. She is a strong, smart, and witty character and her loyalty to Hamlet makes her a dangerous and vengeful person to anyone who plans to harm her Hamlet. She is a strategic planner and is knowledgable enough in botany underneath a beautiful shell, a combination that prooves to be very lethal. I found my self disapointed when the book ended, as I wanted to continue reading about them. I especially loved the little references to Shakespear's other works, adding to the humor of the book. I strongly recomend this book to all ages.
    • 2/5
      A playful retelling of Hamlet. Most of the action of the novel takes place between the scenes of the play. In this version, Ophelia is an amateur botanist (she calls herself an alchemist) and soon to be Hamlet's wife (in a nicely understated scene, she gives up her "virtue" to him, shortly before he appears mad before the court). The novel reveals a different reason for Ophelia's purported madness (like Hamlet's, it is a feigned "antic disposition") and offers an extended ending to the play's conclusion, beginning once the bodies of Hamlet, Laertes, and the Queen are taken to the castle morgue. Purists would cringe, but I like the more positive re-imagining of Hamlet and Ophelia's fate -- much like Ann-Marie MacDonald's reinterpretation of Desdemona's and Juliet's roles. My only complaint with the novel is the dialogue: it's roundly awful.