OPHELIA IN WESTERN ART: AN ANALYSIS OF PICTORIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHARACTER BEFORE MADNESS

Autores

  • Marina Martins Amaral Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18305/scripta%20uniandra.v17i3.1515

Resumo

The article essay addresses the plethora of visual images produced about Ophelia, one of the two female characters in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, in Western Art. The article is based on the archive of 189 images of Ophelia collected during the author’s doctoral research. The analyses focus on pictorial representations of Ophelia before the madness scene, providing a discussion about submissiveness, obedience, patriarchy, naivety, sexuality and sensuality

Keywords: Ophelia. Representation. Shakespeare.

 

DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190037

Biografia do Autor

Marina Martins Amaral, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Holds a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina), with a year at Universidade de Coimbra, a Master’s in Visual Arts (UDESC), and a Doctoral in English (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina) with a dissertation on representations of Shakespeare’s Ophelia in Western Art.

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DOI: 10.5935/1679-5520.20190037

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2019-12-07

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v. 17 n. 3 (2019): Shakespeare: esferas de circulação

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