“Ophelia is a victim of male dominance; without a family her only refuges are submission and shame - or madness and suicide. “The last we see of her,” writes Pennington, “she is being thrown about in a grave just as she was thrown about in life: shouted over by two assertive young men vying with each other over who loved her more, when there is no great evidence that either of them did very much. Rest in peace.””
— Denver Center for the Performing Arts “Inside Out: Hamlet”, referencing Michael Pennington’s “Hamlet: A User’s Guide” (via winslowleach)