"Popular Performance, the Broadside Ballad, and Ophelia's Madness"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbc529/
Author:
	Bialo, Caralyn.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2013
Publication Information:
	SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 53, no.  2 (2013): 293–309.
Annotation:
	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.
Language:
	English
Keywords:
	Ophelia; ballad; madness; dramaturgy; patriarchy
Tags:
	Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism
WSB Update:
	Winter 2013
WSB Record Number:
	bbbc529