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Ophelia (/ oʊ ˈ f iː l i ə /) is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. Due to Hamlet's actions, Ophelia ultimately enters into a state of madness that leads to her drowning.
What follows is an overview of the main characters in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, followed by a list and summary of the minor characters from the play. [1] Three different early versions of the play survive: known as the First Quarto ("Q1"), Second Quarto ("Q2"), and First Folio ("F1"), each has lines—and even scenes—missing in the others, and some character names vary.
Old Hamlet is the father of the title character in Hamlet. His ghost appears to exhort Hamlet to revenge Old Hamlet's murder by Claudius. An Old Lady (fict) is a rather worldly friend of Anne Bullen, in Henry VIII. An Old Man is Gloucester's tenant, who helps with his escape, in King Lear.
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Hammett was born near Great Mills on the "Hopewell and Aim" farm in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, [8] to Richard Thomas Hammett and his wife Anne Bond Dashiell. His mother belonged to an old Maryland family, whose name in French was de Chiel.
Hamlet has played "a relatively small role" [13] in the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays by women writers. Margaret Atwood's "Gertrude Talks Back", in her 1992 collection of short stories Good Bones, sees the title character setting her son straight about Old Hamlet's murder: "It wasn't Claudius, darling, it was me!" [13] [14]
They put on an original play: A musical version of Hamlet consisting of songs sung to the instrumental melodies of popular arias from the operas Carmen and The Tales of Hoffmann (on records owned by Mr. and Mrs. Howell which were inexplicably taken aboard the Minnow and managed to survive the shipwreck). However, true to form as both guest to ...
Negga played Prince Hamlet in the Gate Theatre's 2018 production (directed by Yaël Farber) of Hamlet [26] [27] (Having a woman play the role of Prince Hamlet although depicted as a man in the play is a precedent established in Dublin by Fanny Furnival in 1741). [28] Negga reprised the role of Hamlet to equal acclaim at St. Ann's Warehouse in ...