Document Type
Forum Theme 2
Abstract
Shakespeare’s Ophelia is a complex character—she’s multilayered, conflicted, and evocative. Exactly how a woman from such a golden age of exploration and expansion in England’s history could have lived such a circumscribed existence is certainly understandable, given the time period, but it’s also an incalculable tragedy. In this piece, I invite you to suspend your disbelief and join me in an imaginative quest to see how this star-crossed noblewoman from Denmark might approach Shakespeare’s Sonnets 29, 30, and 122, from a decadent, epicurean, self-indulgent, and entirely postmodern perspective.
Publication Date
2014-2015
Journal Title
UNIversitas
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
5
Copyright
©2015 Vicki J. Simpson
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Vicki J.
(2015)
"A Contemporary Ophelia Reads the Sonnets,"
UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Vol. 10:
No.
1, Article 17.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/universitas/vol10/iss1/17
