Order It: Ophelia's Soliloquy in Hamlet
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Order It: Ophelia's Soliloquy in Hamlet
Try our quiz and order the lines of Ophelia’s soliloquy after Hamlet has denied he loved her and told her “To the nunnery, go.”
Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
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Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
The Utah Shakespeare Festival has a fresh take on Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship, inspired by Artistic Collaborator Jerry Murdock.
How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
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How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
Victorian artists in England painted many portraits of Ophelia, including this one from 1889 by John William Waterhouse.
Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
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Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
The word “girl” means different things to us today than it meant in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare was writing at a time when that meaning was changing, as Deanne Williams of York University in Toronto explains.