So Many Ophelia—Hamlet Parallels!
I have been reading Julia Reinhard Lupton's good book, Thinking with Shakespeare , with special attention, of course, to the chapter on Hamlet , which is very rich in that it's challenging me to think in ways outside of my previous habits. This blog post is not to share any of Lupton's ideas in particular, though I hope to do so in a future post, especially regarding her mention of Moses as related to Hamlet seeing his father's ghost. Sometimes when I research, I mark or copy down quotes and ideas I think I can use. Other times, while the text I'm reading is about A, B, and C, my mind leaps, and I'm thinking of J,K,L. It's a mysterious process. I am not a fan of saying the Catholic Rosary, but I have heard some say that the prayers of the rosary are meant to occupy and distract your ego or consious mind (or "monkey mind"), which allows other insights to surface or breakthroughs to occur. This is what I mean by stumbling upon J-K-L while doing r...