Don Haggerty  
 

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Ophelia - Ad Lib I

ballpoint pen on paper

17" x 14" (framed)

2010

$450

Ophelia - Ad Lib II

sharpie on paper

17" x 14" (framed)

2010

$450


Ophelia, bewildered by Lord Hamlet and coerced by her father and the king, was driven mad, then to a sad death by drowning in a brook beneath a willow.

Excerpt:

There is a willow grows askant the brook,
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream:
Therewith fantastic garlands did she make…
When down her weedy trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaidlike awhile they bore her up…
But long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.