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Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain

by Sharon Keefe Ugalde
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781786835987
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Wales Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 45.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 418 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / Spanish & Portuguese

It is astonishing how deeply the figure of Ophelia has woven itself into the fabric of Spanish literature and the visual arts, from her first appearance in the eighteenth century (translations of Hamlet), through depictions in seminal authors such as Espronceda, Bécquer, and Lorca, to turn-of-the millennium figurations. This provocative, gendered figure has become what male and female authors and artists need her to be. Is she invisible? A victim? Mad? Controlled by the masculine gaze? An agent of her own identity? Ugalde's well-documented study addresses these questions in the context of Iberia. Poets, novelists, and dramatists, penning works in Spanish, Catalan, and Galician, and painters and art photographers bring Shakespeare's heroine to life in new guises. She performs as an authoritative female author, a sexually fulfilled woman, in a male body, as a cyborg, a lesbian, and as a historical marker of past oppression. New looks both reflect and authorize the gender diversity that has gained legitimacy in Spanish society since the political Transition.

Sharon Keefe Ugalde is Distinguished Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at Texas State University, San Marcos.

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