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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 revision of Ophelia from Hamlet, she creates a backstory for Shakespeare’s tragic heroine, from her infancy to just before the action of Hamlet begins. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

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Total running time: 2:50:23
Read by Elizabeth Klett

In addition to the reader, this audio book was produced by:
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Diana Majlinger
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: David Lawrence

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• Chapter 1 – 00:19:56
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• Chapter 2 – 00:22:54
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• Chapter 3 – 00:22:16
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• Chapter 4 – 00:22:01
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• Chapter 5 – 00:37:07
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  [mp3@128kbps - 35.6MB]
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• Chapter 6 – 00:24:51
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  [mp3@128kbps - 23.8MB]
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• Chapter 7 – 00:21:18
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  [mp3@128kbps - 20.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 14MB]

Cataloged on November 14, 2009