Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 53 IS - no. 2 T2 - SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 SP - 293-309 ID - bbbc529 T1 - "Popular Performance, the Broadside Ballad, and Ophelia's Madness" AU - Bialo, Caralyn PY - 2013 DA - 2026 KW - Ophelia KW - ballad KW - madness KW - dramaturgy KW - patriarchy LA - English AB - Argues that understanding how Ophelia's ballads contribute to the theatrical nature of her madness in Hamlet gives insight both into the way Shakespeare exploits tensions between stage-centered and page-centered dramaturgy and locates Ophelia in the popular ballad tradition that allowed room for female resistance to patriarchal expectations. ER -