Her Death is an excerpt from “Hamlet’s Obsession” (2014) by Jon Pescevich.
(…a horrific scream is heard, ringing through the woods…)
(…Ophelia’s dead body is brought out of the woods – she is wrapped in flowers…)
(…Laertes, Ophelia’s brother, watches in silence…)
(…Queen Gertrude emerges from the crowd of people, and she approaches Laertes to comfort him…)
Queen Gertrude:
One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast they follow.
Ophelia’s drown’d.
Laertes:
O, where?
Queen Gertrude:
There is a willow by a brook.
Clamb’ring to hang her flowers she fell in,
chanting snatches of old lauds.
Long it could not be till her garments heavy with their drink,
pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
to muddy death.
(…Gertrude consoles Laertes – the people carry Ophelia’s dead body away…)