Representing ophelia: Women, madness, and the responsibilities of feminist criticism

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 77-94

  Showalter, Elaine ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203414743-12     Document Type: Chapter

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