The Afterlife of Ophelia [Paperback]

This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies.Introduction: The Afterlives of Ophelia  Kaara L. Peterson & Deanne Williams 'I've got a feeling for Ophelia': Childhood and Performance  Seth Lerer Reviewing Ophelia  Jeremy Lopez An Actress Prepares: Seven Ophelias  Neil Taylor Rebooting Ophelia: Social Media and the Rhetorics of Appropriation  Sujata Iyengar and Christy Desmet The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities  Alexander Huang The Lady Vanishes: Aurality and Agency in Cinematic Ophelias  Kendra Preston Leonard Enter Ofelia Playing on a Lute  Deanne Williams Ophelia's Wake  Paul Menzer Ophelia and Some Theatrical Successors  Lois Potter Oph?lie in Nineteenth-Century French Painting  Delphine Gervais de Lafond At the Margins: Ophelia in Modern and Contemporary Photography  Remedios Perni Double Take: Tom Hunter's The Way Home (2000)  Kimberly Rhodes Afterword: Ophelia Then, Now, Hereafter  Copp?lia Kahn

'This richly varied collection builds on Elaine Showalter's famous 1985 essay, 'Representing Ophelia,' to examine multiple representations of Ophelia in various times and places. The images, both described and captured in illustrations, are fascinating in themselves and the collection as a whole constitutes a revealing contribution to cultural history, demonstrating that Ophelia is indeed a mirror in which successive cultures have seen their own anxieties and values.' Phyllis Rackin, professor of English Emerita, University of Pennsylvania

'This is a simply fabulous collection of essays on 'the blighted girlhood' of Ophelia, whose fate has fascinated readers for centuries. Far from being a static figulÃ