1. 14 May


    Kate Winslet reads as Ophelia in Hamlet (1996). Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In a convoluted plot…

    Kate Winslet reads as Ophelia in Hamlet (1996).

    Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father’s funeral and his mother’s wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In a convoluted plot…

     

  2. 28 Jul


    Ophelia (1864). Thomas Francis Dicksee English, 1819-1895). Oil on canvas. Her look of concern alerts us to the troubling spectacle of Hamlet that she sees before her. Her crossed arms suggest a protective stance, one that reminds the viewer of what she is soon to suffer as the scene unfolds. (Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900, Alan R. Young). Dicksee was a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects - often from Shakespeare.

    Ophelia (1864). Thomas Francis Dicksee English, 1819-1895). Oil on canvas.

    Her look of concern alerts us to the troubling spectacle of Hamlet that she sees before her. Her crossed arms suggest a protective stance, one that reminds the viewer of what she is soon to suffer as the scene unfolds. (Hamlet and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900, Alan R. Young).

    Dicksee was a portraitist and painter of historical, genre subjects - often from Shakespeare.

     

  3. 22 Jul


    Gene Tierney with book (1945). Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and others. The story revolves around a femme fatale who entraps a husband and commits several crimes motivated by her insane jealousy. The title is a quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to “leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.”

    Gene Tierney with book (1945).

    Leave Her to Heaven is a 1945 American 20th Century Fox Technicolor film noir motion picture starring Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, and others. The story revolves around a femme fatale who entraps a husband and commits several crimes motivated by her insane jealousy.

    The title is a quote from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Act I, Scene V, the Ghost urges Hamlet not to seek vengeance against Queen Gertrude, but rather to “leave her to heaven, and to those thorns that in her bosom lodge to prick and sting her.”