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I have to disagree, Nicole. I think there is lots of room for interpretation as
to whether or not Hamlet and Ophelia had a sexual relationship. By basis lies
fifty percent in the fact that I do not equate virginity with any sort of merit
of purity: one can be pure, but have sexual relations. All that's needed is for
one to believe that there's love involved: a commitment, if you will. The other
fifty percent lies in the song. While you're quick to dismiss it as simply a
popular song of the time, one must also realize that there were certainly other
songs of the time which were about the preservation of virginity. Billy was an
first-class writer (as attested to by the existance of this site some three-
hundred years after his death), and as such a writer, he would not choose his
use of intertextuality to be so random in its meaning.Posted by LunarCaustic on March 27, 1997 at 00:24:31
In Reply to "Only in the Ken Brannagh Version" posted by Nicole on March 25, 1997 at 22:17:36
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