About this title: Those who think they know the story of Ophelia and Hamlet can think again, because when bloody deeds turn the court of Elsinore into a place of treachery and madness, Ophelia alone will find the means to escape, with nothing more than the clothes on her back . . . and one very dangerous secret.
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Date Published: 2006
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Date Published: 2006-10-31
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Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Hardcover
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here is my essential question: do i love metafiction or do i hate it? i really don't know and this book isn't helping me decide.
first off, i was sort of...miffed...by the premise. i am a die-hard hamlet fan (by which i mean i love shakespeare's play, not that i'm about to get a poisoned rapier and go to town). furthermore, i LOVE ophelia. and i don't think shakespeare does her any unnecessary disservice. there i said it. lisa klein's whole premise in writing this story is that she, too, claims to love ophelia but she feels that billy the bard mistreats her more than, well, everyone in the play seems to. so, in a move that totally lacks any hubris whatsoever, she decided to write this prosaic version instead. pun on prosaic intended.
then, to add insult to injury, she rewrites ophelia's ending.
gah. i understand that the target audience of this book is 13-16 year old girls who practically demand a happy ending (cough, cough, twilight, cough, cough), but the original source is profoundly tragic. to alter or deviate from that is to spit in the face of the original (in my opinion) - there is just no enhancement to shakespeare's text here.
furthermore, the writing here is nothing special; it's not bad...it's just ordinary. lisa klein is a former professor and she clearly knows the rules of grammar, but she lacks the panache of a truly great writer. and let's just be honest, if you are going to take on the bard, you better have a few tricks up your sleeve. perhaps too frequently, klein manipulates famous quotes from the play, but like this novel, her efforts merely come off as a hollow homage to the spirit of the original.
p.s. the post-hamlet bit is just very...weird. i'm fairly certain ophelia gets mixed up with st. theresa of avila, which, well, makes no sense historically. oh, and a rip-off of christine de pizan. and maybe i'm just reading into that because of my degree in medieval lit, but still. it added insult to the injury that is the premise of this book to begin with."
"Ophelia not only tells the story of Hamlet from Ophelia's perspective, with fabulous feminist commentary, but also expands the story so that it goes on beyond Shakespeare's ending for Hamlet. She sets the story in a real world place and time- for example, when Hamlet goes abroad, he is traveling to real places. The writing, though, is what really blew me away. She is poetic and Shakespearean in her style, yet still funny and accessible. She says she tried to use words in her writing that were in use in that time period. The book has a huge about of depth and invites readers to engage with the characters in their discussions on logic and philosophy. The story got slow and rather intense in the middle- the story of Hamlet isn't exactly a happy one- but after that I enjoyed it again. I would recommend it to intellectual, feminist teens; I think it would also be great accompanying a classroom discussion of Hamlet."
"Okay so I think my star rating needs some explaining.
I loved Part 1 and most of Part 2. If the book had stopped there I would have given this 3-4 stars. Probably 4. But now, the book continues for another 100 pages of the most boring rambling "Finding God" story arch which doesn't so much arch as drivels along in a slow straight line.
I thought the whole last third of the book was so bad, the entire story gets 1 star.
I had to skim through most of the ending because it was so boring. Ophelia didn't grow, she became petulant. She didn't want to the kid- then she did! She couldn't tell anyone who she was, or where she was from or that she was carrying a kid. Um- last time I checked on small framed women- you can't even hide that under a cloak/mumu/drapes of fabric. That they couldn't tell until basically she was giving birth? Really?
I knew a girl who tried to hide her pregnancy as a teen. She got fat in all the pregnant places... and by month 7 we all knew she was going to have a baby.
So first 2/3rds of the books- 4 stars, add int he last 100 pages, negative 3 stars. Rounding it out to 1."
"From a convent in France, Ophelia writes the story of her life in Denmark at Elsinore, where she grew up at the court of King Hamlet, cared for by one of queen Gertrude's ladies, Elnora. Ophelia, educated along with her brother Laertes, caught the attention of Gertrude and Prince Hamlet - who fell in love with her and then denied her when he was overcome with a desire to avenge his father's death at Claudius's hand. Klein proposes a different ending for Ophelia than the one Shakespeare provided, and her story continues for a number of years beyond the deaths of Hamlet, Gertrude, Laertes and Polonius. Horatio, Hamlet's loyal friend, helps Ophelia to escape the dangers that remain for her in Denmark, and she travels to a convent in St. Emilion. This is a story that Shakespear would not have written, but it works."
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