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- Title
Transplacing Ophelia: Woman and Nation in the Earliest Russian Hamlets.
- Authors
CHERNYSHEVA, DARIA
- Abstract
The article discusses translations of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in the Earliest Russian literature in regard to description of woman and nation in the same. Topics discussed include presentation of the first Russian "Hamlet" as "Gamlet" by Aleksandr Sumarokov in 1748 featuring multicultural heritage and articulating local concerns, Ophelia or Ofeliia occupying position articulating abuses of power and banishment of the feminine to the space-in-between.
- Subjects
HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); LITERARY criticism; RUSSIAN literature; SUMAROKOV, Aleksandr Petrovich, 1717-1777; ETHNOLOGICAL archives; OPHELIA (Fictional character); FEMININE identity
- Publication
Comparative Drama, 2017, Vol 51, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
0010-4078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cdr.2017.0016