Hamlet - (Ophelia's Drowning)

A scene from a student video production of Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Hamlet
• Shakespeare
• Ophelia
• Drowning
• Water
• Tragedy

[markandrach]

my daughter is due in 3 months,we are calling her ophelia

[Ergastina]

And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:

Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds;

As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and indued

Unto that element: but long it could not be

Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,

Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay

To muddy death.

[hbkrulestheworld]

since when is she so fat?

[ErinJosephine1]

The voice does sound very much like Sylvia Plath. Such a haunting voice. Beautiful video.

[DeborahMareePeace]

Is the voice meant to sound like Sylvia Plath?

[InsanityAndFlowers]

The reason Shakespeare never had the actor of Ophelia actually have a death scene was due to the intimacy of suicide itself, and it was very private, hence why Hamlets mother tells of the suicide rather than it being shown. This is tragic and beautiful, but I did feel like I was impeding, since the act was meant to be intimate and hidden from the reader/watcher/listeners view.

[MoranaLestrange]

@markandrach .. As much as a nice name it is, I wouldn't call my daughter that >.>" probably cause its taken from the noun Opheliac meaning someone who's delved into madness, :|, but yeah... good luck on the birth though <3.

[lucydesichase]

PS-I'm not 100% certain, but I am pretty sure that Irish song started with a "J." PLEASE SOMEONE RESPOND WITH AN ANSWER!!!!! Everyone knows what's it like to be driven mad when you can't remember the name of a song you've heard or an actor you're watching, one of those "where have I seen/heard that before?" et cetera, et cetera. So....please? Anyone?

[lucydesichase]

This video's lovely. I love this play.

ATTENTION EVERYBODY READING THIS COMMENT: A few years ago, there was another "Drowning Ophelia" video that someone recorded to play behind Gertrude during this monologue for their production. They filmed Ophelia in a backyard pool at night. That video has been taken off but what has bugged me for so long is that that video was accompanied by a beautiful Irish song and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was entitled. Does anyone know? Please?

[nevanovna]

dreadful voice