Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore

OPHELIA, THE ROSE OF ELSINORE

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Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore
by Mary Cowden Clarke (1809 — 1898)

This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke’s multi-volume work
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines, in which she
imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice
to Lady Macbeth. In her depiction of Ophelia from Hamlet,
she creates a backstory for Shakespeare’s tragic heroine,
from her infancy to just before the action of Hamlet begins.

Total running time: 2:50:23

Read by Elizabeth Klett

Painting by George Frederick Watts,

Ellen Terry, “Choosing”, (ca. 1864) in the public domain

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Cover design by Kathryn Delaney | acoustical liberation of books

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