#lisa klein

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Have you read Ophelia by Lisa Klein (2006)?

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W A T C H I N G

I bought this in 2019 because I love this Shakespearean story in all its alternate forms HAMLET.

I just never got to watch it because my life was difficult. So it sat on the self in a pile of unmatched movies.

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[toriasimmons]

the ophelia problem

So Ophelia, Shakespeare’s Ophelia, is a pet character of mine. I love her and I want to protect her, and this has always been the case. In my freshman year of college, I painstakingly taped a collection of printed-out pictures to my wall, and more than one Ophelia painting (as above) was among them. She wasn’t my first tragic girl (honestly, that honor probably goes to Sailor Saturn) but she is spiritually the predecessor of many of them.

Ophelia is also misused and underwritten. She’s famous, but she’s not exactly in the pantheon of Strong Female Shakespeare Characters; instead, she’s a poster girl for the Tragic Femmes club.

While I’m drawn to that type, a lot of people just shrug them off. They’re not good feminist role models (which — I’d argue that her portrayal in the original play, and before that as I’ll get into in a minute, isn’t feminist per se but there are feminist ways to interpret her) and/or they’re not good characters (either to engage with or to play, which — that’s in the eye of the beholder, baby). Ophelia in particular has been maligned and/or ignored.

Full text here.

[orchideennacht]

And so they meet in secret, embracing in stairwells and castle turrets, murmuring each other’s names in hushed voices, reaching passionately for each other under the cover of darkness.

From a book description of Ophelia by Lisa Klein

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Ophelia (UK - USA, 2018)

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ophelia (2018)