INDEX OF OPHELIA POSTS: 2023 Series and earlier

In 2023 I started a new series on Ophelia, beginning with the controversy of her death.
The following index has links to all the posts in the series, and will be updated as new posts in the series are added and available. It also includes key posts on Ophelia from previous years.

INDEX OF OPHELIA POSTS: My 2023 series on Ophelia begins here:

Part 1: The Controversy over Ophelia's Death in Hamlet
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-controversy-over-ophelias-death-in.html

Part 2: Ophelia’s drowning shrouded in lies, like other deaths in Hamlet
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/06/part-2-ophelias-drowning-shrouded-in.html

Part 3: Ophelia, Gertrude, and mutually exclusive agency
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/06/part-3-ophelia-gertrude-and-mutually.html

Part 4: Ophelia wronged by monarch, inquest, and priest
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/07/part-4-ophelia-wronged-by-monarch.html

Part 5: Ophelia Drowning in Conflicting Authorities
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/07/part-5-ophelia-drowning-in-conflicing.html

Part 6: Ophelia's Long Purples
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/07/part-6-ophelias-long-purples.html

Part 7: Ophelia's Gravedigger: They "sat on her"
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/07/part-7-ophelias-gravedigger-they-sat-on.html

Part 8: Ophelia to Claudius: "God yield you"
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/07/part-8-ophelia-to-claudius-god-yield-you.html

Part 9: Ophelia, "mad rogue" court fool
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/08/part-9-ophelia-mad-rogue-court-fool.html

Part 10: Ophelia via Elaine Showalter’s 1985 “Representing”
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/08/part-10-ophelia-via-elaine-showalters.html

Part 11: "Mad" Ophelia grasps "tricks i' th' world" and Denmark's corruption
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/08/part-11-mad-ophelia-grasps-tricks-i-th.html

Part 12: Ophelia and Hamlet as Orpheus and Eurydice
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/08/part-12-ophelia-and-hamlet-as-orpheus.html

Part 13: Ophelia, Hamlet, and 13 ways of looking at madness
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/09/part-13-ophelia-hamlet-and-13-ways-of.html

Part 14: Part 14: Ophelia's figuratively incestuous family
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/09/part-14-ophelias-figuratively.html

Part 15: Ophelia's Suffering: Chastened, Chosen, Beloved of God?
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/09/part-15-ophelias-suffering-chastened.html

Part 16: Ophelia, priestess and peace-parted mystic
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/09/part-16-ophelia-priestess-and-peace.html

Part 17: Ophelia's "Owl" and "False Steward" Allusions: Why in that order?
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/10/part-17-ophelias-owl-and-false-steward.html

Part 18: A mote in Ophelia’s eye met with Gertrude's merciful fiction?
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/10/part-18-mote-in-ophelias-eye-met-with.html

Part 19: Ophelia's Parley in Polonius' War
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/10/part-19-ophelias-parley-in-polonius-war.html

Part 20: Ophelia and the Mousetrap of her Family’s Protectiveness
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/10/part-20-ophelia-and-mousetrap-of-her.html

Part 21: Ophelia's Bonny Sweet Robin: Tricksters who Redistribute Agency
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/10/part-21-ophelias-bonny-sweet-robin.html

Part 22: Ophelia's Opening Questions
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/11/part-22-ophelias-opening-questions.html

Part 23: Queen Ophelia and the male gatekeepers defining her madness
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/11/part-23-queen-ophelia-and-male.html

Part 24: Ophelia, Gertrude, and Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal - via Cristina Leon Alfar
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/11/part-24-ophelia-gertrude-and-shifting.html

Part 25: Ophelia's Self-Catching Conscience in the Mirror of her Arts
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/11/part-25-ophelias-self-catching.html

Part 26: Ophelia gives crowns instead of grasping and hoarding one
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/12/part-26-ophelia-gives-crowns-instead-of.html

Part 27: Ophelia's Willow, Psalm 137, & Religious Refugees - December 12, 2023
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/12/part-27-ophelias-willow-psalm137.html

Part 28: Ophelia saved by faith alone, or by Gertrude's work of mercy?
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/01/part-28-ophelia-saved-by-faith-alone-or.html

Part 29: Pivot from Ophelia to Gertrude - and their mysteries
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/01/part-29-pivot-from-ophelia-to-getrude.html

GERTRUDE INTERLUDES:

Part 30: A Tale of Four Gertrudes (Interludes)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/02/part-30-interlude-tale-of-four-gertrudes.html

Part 31: Gertrude as Protestant Allegory (Interlude A)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/02/part-31-interlude-gertrude-as.html

Part 32: A Surprised and Sentimental Gertrude (Interlude B)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/02/part-32-interlude-b-surprised-and.html

Part 33: A Suicidal Gertrude (Interlude C)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/02/part-33-interlude-c-suicidal-gertrude.html

Part 34: Why Gertrude personifies the envious sliver of willow (Interlude D.1)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-34-interlude-d1-why-gertrude.html

Part 35: Why Gertrude likely suspects a poison cup (Interlude D.2)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-35-why-gertrude-likely-suspects.html

Part 36: Gertrude builds a better mousetrap for Claudius (Interlude D.3)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-36-gertrude-builds-better.html

Part 37: Sts. Gertrude, pilgrim's lovers, & mousetraps (Interlude D.4)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/03/part-37-sts-gertrude-pilgrims-lovers.html

OPHELIA AND GERTRUDE

Part 38: Christ figures in Hamlet: Ophelia, Gertrude, Hamlet (Good Friday 2024 post)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/03/christ-figures-in-hamlet-ophelia.html

Part 39: Ophelia, Gertrude, Hamlet: three damned souls as saved Christ-figures
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-39-ophelia-gertrude-hamlet-three.html

Part 40: Ophelia, Gertrude, and the Purgatory of Scholarship
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-40-ophelia-gertrude-and-purgatory.html

Part 41: Love Madness: Ophelia, Gertrude, and Helen of Troy
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-41-love-madness-ophelia-gertrude.html

Part 42: A Living Mousetrap: Ophelia's Owl
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-42-living-mousetrap-ophelias-owl.html

Part 43: Ophelia's Owl and Hamlet's Mousetrap (cont.)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/04/part-43-ophelias-owl-and-hamlets.html

Part 44: Ophelia, Ariadne, Aegeus: Rejection, Ecstasy, Drowning
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2024/05/part-44-ophelia-ariadne-aegeus.html

(More to come.)


Other key posts on Ophelia:

Rethinking Ophelia and the Virgin Mary
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2023/05/rethinking-ophelia-and-virgin-mary.html

J.G. McManaway: Ophelia & Jephtha's Daughter (Jephthah series)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2020/12/jg-mcmanaway-ophelia-jephthas-daughter.html

What Art Might Remind Us About Jephthah, Polonius, & Ophelia (Jephthah series)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-art-might-remind-us-about-jephthah.html

Jephthah & Polonius: What’s prostitution got to do with it? (Jephthah series)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2021/01/jephthah-polonius-whats-prostitution.html

Owl & Beggar Lazarus at Baker's Door in Hamlet 4.5 (part 11 in Lazarus series)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-begggar-lazarus-at-bakers-door-in.html

Ophelia in 1.3 as the Beggar Lazarus (part 6 in Lazarus series)
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2021/03/ophelia-in-13-as-beggar-lazarus-part-6.html

Historical Criticism & Michael MacDonald's essay, "Ophelia's Maimèd Rites"
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2020/08/hist-crit-michael-macdonald-ophelia-maimed-rites.html

Shaming Ophelia: Getting the Prodigal Wrong in Hamlet 1.3
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/01/getting-prodigal-wrong-in-hamlet-13.html

So Many Ophelia—Hamlet Parallels!
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/05/so-many-opheliahamlet-parallels.html

Ophelia's Prayer Book & the Annunciation of Mary
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/05/ophelias-prayer-book-annunciation-of.html

Ophelia's Burial: Exceptions for People with the Right Connections
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/02/ophelias-burial-exceptions-connections.html

Suzannah & the Elders: Ophelia, Eliz I, & the Nunnery Scene
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/02/ophelia-elizabeth-i-suzannah-jephthahs.html

Ophelia: "The false steward that stole his master's daughter"
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-false-steward-that-stole-his.html

In Hamlet, Do Laertes & Ophelia Echo Salome?
https://pauladrianfried.blogspot.com/2018/10/in-hamlet-do-laertes-ophelia-echo.html



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Images in opening collage not credited at the links above:

TOP ROW, SECOND FROM RIGHT: Hamlet and Ophelia (after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Henry Treffry Dunn (1838–1899)
National Trust, Wightwick Manor
National Trust Images. Fair use, via https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-theodore-watts-dunton-cabinet-hamlet-and-ophelia-131525
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Disclaimer: If and when I quote or paraphrase bible passages or mention religion in many of my blog posts, I do not intend to promote any religion over another, nor am I attempting to promote religious belief in general; only to explore how the Bible and religion influenced Shakespeare, his plays, and his age.
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