Ophelia
Chapter 1 of 12 Ophelia - Read by ADD
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- Running time
- 22 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010), Ancilla, Jennette Selig, Karen Savage, Katherine Spencer-Howard and 7 others
Chapters
About this recording
Ophelia, poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. This was published in 1920 in "Collected Poems 1901-1918" by Walter De la Mare.
Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him, and went insane. She drowned in a stream, gathering flowers of remembrance. This is one of a number of poems that De La Mare wrote about Shakespeare characters. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)
