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"Ophelia is a character in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. She is driven mad when her father, Polonius, is murdered by her lover, Hamlet. She dies while still very young, suffering from grief and madness. The events shown in Millais’s Ophelia are not actually seen on stage. Instead, they are referred to in a conversation between Queen Gertrude and Ophelia’s brother Laertes. Gertrude describes how Ophelia fell into the river while picking flowers and slowly drowned, singing all the while."
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Avalonanders
~avalonanders
Beautifully depicted and very much one of my fave Shakespeare unseen moments~
Acidbearart
~dalldall
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Yes!! There is so much to be said about this scene!
