Ophelia's

I'm looking for that good old boy they calls Ophelia's Darling.

Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011

I'm looking for that good old boy they calls Ophelia's Darling.

Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011

Suzi MacintyreBishops Frome, Worcestershire • To search for real-life events as inspirations for what occurs in a play is a pathetic approach to Shakespeare, or to any literature Tudor tragedy may have inspired Ophelia's fate, 8 June.

Letters: Birthday wishes 2011

Very rarely do Ophelia's words seem obviously contrived to fit the new circumstances of their utterance, and as the text unfolds Ophelia convinces us she has the right and the means to speak for herself and that the origin of her words is secondary to her often affecting repossession of them.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Suzi MacintyreBishops Frome, Worcestershire • To search for real-life events as inspirations for what occurs in a play is a pathetic approach to Shakespeare, or to any literature Tudor tragedy may have inspired Ophelia's fate, 8 June.

Letters: Birthday wishes 2011

At Ms. Berry's behest, they lay on the floor rolling from side to side; sat cross-legged in a circle and gave their lines—this time Ophelia's "O, what a noble mind" lament from "Hamlet"—in a near whisper, took a stroll switching directions at each punctuation mark in the text, and then, hands on thighs, diligently tapped out the speech's rhythm: "o, WHAT a NO-ble MIND. . ."

A Matter of Voice Joanne Kaufman 2011

Its origin in the recycling of a precursor text, one that is no doubt well known to most who might read Let Me Tell You, must remain a manifest reality in the experience of reading the novel; it has very little claim on our attention, in fact, independent of its source in Hamlet and in Ophelia's role in the play.

Experimental Fiction 2010

At the same time, one can never quite "lose" oneself in Ophelia's narrative.

Experimental Fiction 2010

This is at the same time a playful reference to the conditions imposed on Ophelia's speech by the text itself and an honest statement of the unavoidable conditions imposed upon all poetic saying: the urge to express is quickly confronted with the actuality that all such expression will be incomplete, that the substance of what would be said is always escaping between the words.

Experimental Fiction 2010

In a final exercise before the lunch break, Fiasco member Emily Young delivered Ophelia's monologue while desperately attempting to attract the attention and empathy of her peers, who'd all been told to shake her off and head in another direction.

A Matter of Voice Joanne Kaufman 2011