![]() ![]() The Ophelia of Ophelia survives the events at the end of Hamlet (that information is revealed in a letter to her from Horatio that opens the novel, so that's not too much of a spoiler). Without giving away too much, Lady Macbeth's Daughter invents a daughter for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth-only Macbeth (à la Leontes) orders the child killed. The main interest is in how they deviate from the plots of their respective plays. ![]() They lack the fire, the passion, and the interest of Rebecca Reisert's Third Witch (for which, q.v.) or her Ophelia's Revenge (for which, q. That said, I also didn't feel any sort of connection to these two works.īoth books are generally romanticized retellings of a Shakespeare play's plot, but they are, I'm sorry to say, on the banal, blasé, and boring side. I feel that I am more in the target audience for these two novels than for Tempestuous or Exposure these books aren't as clearly focused on the modern American high school crowd. ![]()
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