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177 - Iconic Characters: Ophelia

from Part XVIII - Shakespeare and Popular Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2019

By
Sujata Iyengar
Edited by
Bruce R. Smith
Edited in association with
Katherine Rowe
With
Ton Hoenselaars ,
Akiko Kusunoki ,
Andrew Murphy  and
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Bruce R. Smith
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Katherine Rowe
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
Ton Hoenselaars
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Akiko Kusunoki
Affiliation:
Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan
Andrew Murphy
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin
Aimara da Cunha Resende
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
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appropriationburlesqueChinadrowningFacebookHamletIndiaJapanOpheliavisual artswateryoung adult fiction
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare , pp. 1322 - 1325
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Further reading

Desmet, Christy. “Paying Attention in Shakespeare Parody: From Tom Stoppard to YouTube.” Shakespeare Survey 61 (2008): 227–38.Google Scholar
Floyd-Wilson, Mary. “Ophelia and Femininity in the Eighteenth Century: ‘Dangerous Conjectures in Ill-Breeding Minds.’” Women’s Studies 21 (1992): 397–409.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Schoch, Richard W. Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Vest, James M. The French Face of Ophelia from Belleforest to Baudelaire. Lanham: UP of America, 1989.Google Scholar
Young, Alan. “The Death of Shakespeare’s Ophelia, Popular Culture, and Web 2.0.” http://www.opheliapopularculture.com/home. Accessed 2 June 2013.Google Scholar

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