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Alas, poor Ophelia: the minor characters who deserve the spotlight by Lyn Gardner

Ophelias Zimmer presents Hamlet from the perspective of its tragic heroine. There are plenty of other supporting characters I'd like to know more aboutIt's said that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor because Elizabeth I was so taken with the character of Falstaff in Henry IV that she demanded he got a play of his own, depicting "Falstaff in love". Elizabeth is not the only person to have thought a minor ch…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PM on May 23, 2016

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