Tag: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
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Madness and gender in Gregory Doran’s Hamlet
Sarah Bahr Indianapolis, Indiana, United States John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52, Tate Britain, London. In director Gregory Doran’s 2009 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, David Tennant’s Hamlet becomes a bawdy lunatic who consciously or unconsciously uncouples himself from reality. The intentionality of Hamlet’s madness is more muddled than in Shakespeare’s text because of the…
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Emptiness Melancholia: depression sweet depression
Camila Machado Minas Gerais, Brazil Ophelia, 1851 John Everett Millais. Oil on Canvas. Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality.1 – Andrew Solomon Vitality had seemed to seep away from me through the years, stopping me from feeling joy, sadness, affection, and love. I felt empty…