The summer 2001 issue of the literary magazine
Granta contains a couple of Shakespeare
references. The first comes in “Confessions Of A Middle-Aged Ecstasy Eater.”
The anonymous author writes, “I do not mean to invoke images of Zen and Buddha –
my son is roughly as Zen-like as Eminem – but the transformation was as
striking as it was palpable, this sea change” (p. 20). That last phrase comes
from
The Tempest, where Ariel sings, “Nothing
of him that doth fade/But doth suffer a sea change.” The second comes in “The
Andes Of Martin Chambi,” written by Amanda Hopkinson. Hopkinson writes, “She
preyed on innocuous and unlikely citizens until, with a cry of ‘Here’s my King
Arthur!’ or ‘You are Ophelia: kindly weep!’ she would introduce them to her
dressing-up trunk and her makeshift studio, to be transformed according to her
personal vision” (p. 91). Hopkinson there refers to Hamlet’s Ophelia.
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