{"id":3556,"date":"2021-04-23T07:22:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:44:40","slug":"ophelia-masters-thesis-gets-2000-hits-mystery-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2021\/04\/ophelia-masters-thesis-gets-2000-hits-mystery-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophelia Master\u2019s Thesis Gets 2000 Hits: Mystery Solved?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The master\u2019s thesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.shu.edu\/dissertations\/2462\/\"><em>Ophelia&#8217;s Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities<\/em><\/a> by Seton Hall graduate Danielle Tovsen has been downloaded nearly 2000 times since the end of 2017. Tovsen graduated from Seton Hall in 2010 with an MA in English. She argues in her thesis \u201cthat Ophelia could have saved her own life if she had left home and fled to a nunnery; the treatment she received from Laertes and Polonius was worse than Hamlet&#8217;s treatment of her throughout the play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Marta Deyrup, Outreach and Humanities Librarian at University Libraries, discovered the thesis while doing research on Shakespeare in the Seton Hall <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.shu.edu\">eRepository.<\/a> The high number of downloads impressed Dr. Deyrup, which led her to contact Dr. Chrysanthy Grieco, the advisor on the thesis and both a former dean of University Libraries and chair of the English Department. Dr. Grieco could not answer why it has had close to 2000 hits, but she did say \u201cthat\u2019s an astounding number for an MA paper.\u201d She also guessed \u201cthat those interested in feminist texts\u2014though I doubt this is one\u2014found some yeast for their bread\u201d in Tovsen\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Another interesting aspect of the mystery is the location of the downloads. A good number of the downloads were from educational institutions such as the Michigan Statewide Educational Network and Orange County Department of Education. Dr. Deyrup thinks this might indicate the thesis is being used to support the research of middle and high school students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The master\u2019s thesis: Ophelia&#8217;s Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities by Seton Hall graduate Danielle Tovsen has been downloaded nearly 2000 times since the end of 2017. Tovsen graduated from Seton Hall in 2010 with an MA in English. She argues in her thesis \u201cthat Ophelia could have saved her own life if she had left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/2021\/04\/ophelia-masters-thesis-gets-2000-hits-mystery-solved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ophelia Master\u2019s Thesis Gets 2000 Hits: Mystery Solved?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3904,"featured_media":3560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library-news","category-theses-dissertations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}