SHAKSPER 2000: Ophelia / O-phallos

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 03/20/00


The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0529  Monday, 20 March 2000.

From:           Richard Burt <burt@english.umass.edu>
Date:           Thursday, 16 Mar 2000 16:49:11 -0500
Subject:        Ophelia / O-phallos

In his essay on Hamlet, Jacques Lacan puns on Ophelia's name (as
O-phallus) only to dismiss the pun. Any one happen to know anything
about her name, which I assume was rather rare in Shakespeare's day?



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