Thursday, December 8, 2011

Shakespeare at Large

Really?



Tonight at the Harvard Humanities Center, Caroline and I heard an awesome talk by our friend and Shakespearean extraordinaire Coppelia Kahn, Professor of English at Brown. Professor Kahn's talk came out of the forthcoming The Afterlives of Ophelia . We got to hear all about the history of Ophelia in the popular imagination (beautiful! passive! dead!)and Ophelia's digital afterlife as tragic-love-story-girl. See, for example, the hilarious video above. Grab a barf bag and enjoy.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for posting this! I had forgotten how powerful an actor Rip Taylor was when he was younger.

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