Here Elaine Showalter discusses Ophelia's madness as a particularly female malady, showing how from Shakespeare's day to our own, Ophelia has been used both to reflect and to …

[In the following essay, Showalter probes a number of crucial questions surrounding the character of Ophelia which involve her status in the play and bring to the forefront the relation between …

“As a sort of a come-on, I announced that I would speak today about that piece of bait named Ophelia, and I'll be as good as my word.” These are the words which begin the psychoanalytic …

The document discusses different ways that feminist critics have represented and interpreted Ophelia's character from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It describes how Ophelia has been seen as a …

Mar 15, 2016 · Here Elaine Showalter discusses Ophelia's madness as a particularly female malady, showing how from Shakespeare's day to our own Ophelia has been used both to …

Elaine Showalter suggests that “the changing representations of Ophelia over the centuries…chronicle the shifting definitions of female insanity, from the erotomania of the …

She is one of the founders of feminist literary criticism in United States academia, developing the concept and practice of gynocritics. She is well known and respected in both academic and …

tegies can militate against any temptation to apply Hamlet’s words to Ophelia. In Daniels’ Hamlet for instance, Barber’s Ophelia appeared before Hamlet actually spoke to them. She stood …

Looking at Ophelia’s history on and off the stage, I will point out the contest between male and female representations of Ophelia, cycles of critical repression and feminist reclamation of …

Aug 15, 2023 · On the stage, Ophelia’s madness was presented as the predictable outcome of erotomania. From 1660, when women first appeared on the public stage, to the beginnings of …