Dating Hamlet, Lisa Fiedler
Dating Hamlet, Lisa Fiedler
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Dating Hamlet
Ophelia's Story

Author: Lisa Fiedler

Narrator: Charlotte Parry

Unabridged: 4 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/19/2008


Synopsis

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

About 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.


Reviews

There's a lot of retelling in this retelling - as in, Ophelia spends some pages telling Fortinbras what has happened at the end. Other than that, it was easy to read and had some fun lines that Shakespeare probably would have liked. Probably would be less so inclined in regard to the number of death......more

Goodreads review by Ray

This is exactly the story I wanted to make up after reading Hamlet my freshman year of high school. Is the Elizabethan English cheesy and only sort of passable? Yes. Does it tend drop absolutely jarring modern phrases and jokes out of nowhere? Also yes. It was a romp, and I am a sucker for "They wer......more

Goodreads review by Harry

How many individuals that work in a library don't even realize WHAT is in their collection or why? Simply looking at the date published, the number of times checked out, the condition of course are factors. But ever wonder if the number of times checked out is misaligned with a text actually alignin......more

Goodreads review by Marsha

With an obvious love for and knowledge of Shakespeare, the author dodges nimbly among the well-known characters of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark to give us a throbbing love story. It brims with romance and defiance as Ophelia plots and schemes behind the scenes to ensure a happy ending for her and her b......more