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Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story

Fiedler Lucky Me keeps the framework of Shakespeare's classic play intact, but in this fun, feminist retelling, Ophelia narrates. Hamlet's uncle still murders his father, the king, and marries his mother, and Hamlet is called upon by his father's ghost to avenge him. Here, however, it is Ophelia who first tells Hamlet of his father's ghost she observes Horatio's encounter with the King's apparition from a hiding place. And when Hamlet sets out to prove his uncle's guilt, feigning madness and staging a play that mimics the murder, Ophelia helps him; together they compose the letter, "proving" his madness addressed to "beautified Ophelia" , incorporating here, as in other scenes, Shakespeare's original language. Fiedler also intermittently offers insight into several of Shakespeare's double entendres e. The author adds a scene in which the two consummate their love, and also lays the groundwork for Ophelia's mad speech about flowers in Act IV, Scene V of the original play. Those familiar with the original Hamlet will most appreciate Fiedler's imaginative approach, as she pays homage to the Bard with clever cribbing and her own twist on Shakespearean language.

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Constantly overpowered by her masculine figures, Ophelia suffers more than anyone. She loses her love, her father and eventually her mind. The great tragedy of her life is not, in fact, her premature death, but the treatment she received in life, used as both a sexual and a political pawn, by which the men enact their evil manipulations. She is a victim of physical as well as emotional abuse, from both her overbearing father and her former lover, Hamlet. Even in death, she is treated as a pretty girl, only good for her looks rather than a kind, gentle being, with any intelligence or an ability to speak of her own accord. This is an image immortalized through time, for example through the infamous painting by Millais of the young girl submerged in a lake, clothed in a billowing white gown and adorned by delicate flowers.

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Ophelia lives to tell the tale of what happened at Elsinore "The nights at Elsinore are longer than anywhere else. I have stayed awake these many weeks, which has aided me greatly in my portrayal of

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Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story. (Fiction).

Written by Lisa Fiedler. Narrated by Charlotte Parry. Lisa Fiedler is the author of a number of popular young adult novels, including two retellings of a Shakespearean story from the female point of view, Dating Hamlet and Romeo's Ex.

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