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February 2, 2021 03:00 pm GMT

Full-length novel written using the 483 words spoken by Ophelia in "Hamlet"

Thanks to this LitHub article, I just learned about Paul Griffiths' 2014 novel let me tell you, a 144-page book that is solely comprised of the 426 words spoken by the character of Ophelia in Hamlet. While I haven't personally read the book yet, I was intrigued by the creative devising process laid out in the aforementioned interview:

I began with the idea of taking all the words spoken in Hamlet and rearranging them into a new text.

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