“Maddening Endurance”1 Post-modern Images of Ophelia’s Madness

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“Mythologized over time, Ophelia has attained the status of a cult figure […] to such an extent that she has become a cliche2”, as Carol Solomon Kiefer – curator of the exhibition The Myth and Madness of Ophelia – states. As a matter of fact, Ophelia, in popular culture, is much more than Laertes’s

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