Thank you for posting this assignment. I hope to use a variation of your assignment next year with my students. 🙂 I also appreciate the reflection and student responses. This helps so much in selecting art works for discussion as there are a plethora of Ophelia pieces out there.
Interesting piece, I’ve previously made photographic images in response to studying previous artistic interpretations against the text: They’re on my wordpress blog at www.npicola.com
I love this lesson…I know you weren’t studying HAMLET for this one (and I am so glad to see someone drawing on several texts in a Shakespeare unit!), so there may not have been time, but we made some neat discoveries in playing with the Ophelia/Laertes scene that might lend credence to the Delacroix (sexualized) image, not to mention a close look at her songs… Fun to dig into the text and see if our traditional notions of a character can be changed.
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ohyesjulesdid — May 6, 2014
Thank you for posting this assignment. I hope to use a variation of your assignment next year with my students. 🙂 I also appreciate the reflection and student responses. This helps so much in selecting art works for discussion as there are a plethora of Ophelia pieces out there.
ohyesjulesdid — May 6, 2014
Jill, I love this! I will steal this idea when I’m teaching Shakespeare again next year!
Mrs.McNeely — May 7, 2014
Interesting piece, I’ve previously made photographic images in response to studying previous artistic interpretations against the text: They’re on my wordpress blog at www.npicola.com
npicola — May 12, 2014
I love this lesson…I know you weren’t studying HAMLET for this one (and I am so glad to see someone drawing on several texts in a Shakespeare unit!), so there may not have been time, but we made some neat discoveries in playing with the Ophelia/Laertes scene that might lend credence to the Delacroix (sexualized) image, not to mention a close look at her songs… Fun to dig into the text and see if our traditional notions of a character can be changed.
Sarah Enloe — June 3, 2014