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Though there are only two traditionally female characters in Hamlet — Ophelia and Gertrude —the play itself speaks volumes about the uniquely painful, difficult struggles and unfair fates women have suffered throughout history.
- Poison, Corruption, Death
When the sentinel Marcellus speaks the line “Something is...
- Religion, Honor, and Revenge
Every society is defined by its codes of conduct—its rules...
- Action and Inaction
Hamlet is part of a literary tradition called the revenge...
- Appearance Vs. Reality
Hamlet is full of references to the wide gulf that often...
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- Poison, Corruption, Death
This research paper examines the portrayal of women in Shakespeare's Hamlet, looking for antifeminist overtones. The study exposes situations that maintain traditional gender stereotypes and suppress female autonomy through an assessment of female characters such as Gertrude and Ophelia.
3 wrz 2020 · Their iconoclasm, and Hamlet's alleged 'femininity', have fascinated playwrights, painters, novelists and film-makers from Eugène Delacroix and the Victorian novelist Mary Braddon to Angela Carter and Robert Lepage.
Adapted from Lisa Klein’s 2006 novel by the same name, the film stars Daisy Ridley as an Ophelia for the 21st century: far from being a passive player in someone else’s story, she’s assertive,...
10 sty 2020 · Discover the role and significance of each key character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
Insofar as Hamlet names Ophelia as “woman” and “frailty,” substituting an ideological view of femininity for a personal one, is she indeed representative of Woman, and does her madness stand...
Chapter 9 looks at female Hamlets in sound film and fiction, permeating our imagination in contradictory ways. Chapter 10 samples the explosion of Shakespearean cross-gender experiments in Britain and the USA since the late 1970s. The concluding chapter considers the complex iconic status of the female Hamlet in recent writing and performance ...
