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Performing Ophelia: The Iconography of Madness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Judith Wechsler
Judith Wechsler
Affiliation:
Tufts University
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Extract

Performance brings Ophelia's madness to life. Painters and illustrators responded as much to performance as to text when representing Ophelia. This essay concerns those representations and the impact of the performer on a generation of French Romantic artists, writers, and their audiences.

Type
Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , November 2002 , pp. 201 - 221
Copyright
© 2002 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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