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Letters From Elsinore
“An original and astonishing voice.”
Sir Ben Kingsley
“Rush is one of the most brilliant writers in the country. In Elsinore, Ophelia and her never-to-be mother-in-law are given a voice. They speak, at last, and they long for freedom and for sex...”
Rene Weiss, Professor Emeritus, University College London
“Enigmatic, experimental, genre-bending, Hamlet often seems that it is trying to be a novel – and this is it! Christopher Rush’s wonderful re-creation demonstrates Shakespeare’s own capacity to generate new fictions, century after century… Moving, harrowing and lyrical.”
Neil Rhodes, Professor of English Literature and Cultural History,
University of St Andrews
“Adds startling new dimensions to the tragedy. Shakespeare will now mean even more to all readers. This is a great book.”
Owen Dudley Edwards, Professor Emeritus,
Dept of History,
University of Edinburgh
With his dying breath, Hamlet asks Horatio to tell his true story. Chris Rush has taken up the narrative where Shakespeare bids it farewell.
A dark and sometimes humorous reworking of the Bard’s most famous play. one by one the characters who live in the Prince of Denmark’s world, give a very different take on the events centring on Elsinore.
With refreshing originality, Christopher Rush breaks down the barriers between history, drama and psychology to present the reader with a richly complex inner world, which takes us from the disintegrating reality inside Hamlet’s head to the rebellious turbulence underlying Ophelia’s demure surface.
If you thought you understood Hamlet before, think again.