Deconstructing Melancholy: Ophelia in the Work af Angélica Liddell
Abstract
Hamlet’s melancholy temperament has been long associated with the creative and visionary genius in Western culture. Ophelia, however, has been diagnosed with various pathologies, most of them linked to her fragile nature and the failure of their relationship. Considering the Shakespearean myth, Angélica Liddell investigates the idea of melancholy, and challenges the dualism of the lucid melancholy man and the cliché of love melancholy traditionally attributed to women in order to deconstruct them. Using the word as well as a staging style as beautiful as violent, Liddell visibilizes the perversity of power relations, while claiming the political nature of the personal and the private. This can be observed through the analysis of the plays La falsa suicida, Dolorosa and La casa de la fuerza, as well as through her photographic self-portraits quoting Ophelia.
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