Madness in Shakespeare
Macbeth - Conveying madness through language
- Determination and denial of nature
- The sleepwalking scene
- Lady Macbeth, by Henry Fuseli, 1781-1784
Texts, painting and keys...
Ophelia's lyrical madness in Hamlet
- The King and the Queen witness Ophelia's madness
- Gertrude reporting Ophelia's death to Laertes
- John Everett Millais's Ophelia, 1852
Texts, painting and keys...
Feigned and real madness in King Lear
- Insanity as a disguise
- Satire under the cover of madness
- William Dyce's King Lear and The Fool in the Storm, 1851
Texts, painting and keys...
Final Task
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, groups of students will be asked to find other texts and works of visual arts illustrating madness in Shakespeare (with the help of their teacher). They will put up an exhibition associating texts and artworks with commentaries about how artists use, express or change insanity's function in paintings, drawings or photographs derived from Shakespearean scenes.
450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth
Pour citer cette ressource :
Madness in Shakespeare, La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), juillet 2013. Consulté le 11/12/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/se-former/workbook/madness-in-shakespeare-lele/madness-in-shakespeare-lele