Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
Shakespeare & Beyond
Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
The Utah Shakespeare Festival has a fresh take on Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship, inspired by Artistic Collaborator Jerry Murdock.
How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
Shakespeare & Beyond
How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
Victorian artists in England painted many portraits of Ophelia, including this one from 1889 by John William Waterhouse.
Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
Shakespeare & Beyond
Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
The word “girl” means different things to us today than it meant in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare was writing at a time when that meaning was changing, as Deanne Williams of York University in Toronto explains on a recent episode…