Polonius is Claudius's trusted chief counsellor ; Polonius's son, Laertes, is returning to France, and Polonius's daughter, Ophelia, is courted by Hamlet.

Shortly afterward, Ophelia is alarmed by Hamlet's strange behaviour, reporting to her father that Hamlet rushed into her room, stared at her, and said nothing.

At Elsinore, further demented by grief at her father Polonius's death, Ophelia wanders the castle, acting erratically and singing bawdy songs.

Ophelia ( painting ) | Ophelia depicts lady Ophelia's mysterious death by drowning.

Ophelia ( character ) | Ophelia is distracted by grief.

Ophelia has also been defended by feminist critics, most notably Elaine Showalter.

Ophelia is surrounded by powerful men: her father, brother, and Hamlet.

The first Hamlet in color was a 1969 film directed by Tony Richardson with Nicol Williamson as Hamlet and Marianne Faithfull as Ophelia.

The film is structured as an epic and makes frequent use of flashbacks to highlight elements not made explicit in the play: Hamlet's sexual relationship with Kate Winslet's Ophelia, for example, or his childhood affection for Yorick ( played by Ken Dodd ).

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

The second adaptation was broadcast on 15 July 2007 as part of a celebration of Stoppard's 70th birthday ; the production was directed by Peter Kavanagh with Danny Webb as Rosencrantz, Andrew Lincoln as Guildenstern, Desmond Barrit as The Player, John Rowe as Polonius, Abigail Hollick as Ophelia, Liza Sadovy as Gertrude, Simon Treves as Claudius and John Dougall as Hamlet.

Examples include the critical importance of a river in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and the drowning of Ophelia in Hamlet.

Later that year, he attended a production by a traveling English theater company at the Odéon theatre with the Irish-born actress Harriet Smithson playing Ophelia and Juliet in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

In 1827, Berlioz watched Irish actress Harriet Smithson at the Odéon theatre playing Ophelia and Juliet in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Guests included Morticia's older sister Ophelia ( also played by Carolyn Jones in the original television series ), Morticia's cousin Melancholia, and Morticia's mother Hester Frump ( played in the 1960s series by Margaret Hamilton, wearing her Miss Almira Gulch dress from the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz ).

* Ophelia Profile by NASA's Solar System Exploration

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit ;", or is told the time by Mercutio: " for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon "; and in Hamlet, Hamlet torments Ophelia with a series of sexual puns, viz.

Nilsson as Ophelia, caricatured by André Gill, 1868.

Crisp played Polonius in the 65-minute adaptation of Shakespeare's play, supported by Helen Mirren, who doubled as Ophelia and Gertrude.

Tuck is then summoned by a past girlfriend named Zoophilia ( similar to Ophelia ).

Ophelia ( painting ) | Ophelia, by John Everett Millais

Father of Ophelia and Laertes, and Lord Chamberlain to King Claudius, he is described as a windbag by some and a rambler of wisdom by others.

Among the memorable performances ( including some from before Papp had the Delacorte for his Shakespeare ) were George C. Scott's Obie-award winning Richard III in 1958 ; Colleen Dewhurst's Kate, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra ( opposite George C. Scott's Mark Antony ), and Gertrude ; the Prince Hamlet of Stacy Keach opposite Dewhurst's Gertrude with James Earl Jones ' King Claudius, Barnard Hughes's Polonius and Sam Waterston's Laertes ; Sam Waterston's Hamlet ( opposite the Gertrude of Ruby Dee ) with the Laertes of John Lithgow and Andrea Marcovicci's Ophelia ; the Benedick and Beatrice of Sam Waterston and Kathleen Widdoes in Much Ado About Nothing with Barnard Hughes's Keystone Kops version of Dogberry ; the early work of Meryl Streep as Isabella in Measure for Measure ; Mary Beth Hurt as Randall Duk Kim's daughter in Pericles ; James Earl Jones as King Lear ( 1973 ) with Rosalind Cash and Ellen Holly as his wicked daughters ; Raul Julia as Edmund in Jones ' 1973 King Lear, as Osric to Keach's Hamlet, and as Proteus ( in a musical adaptation of Two Gentlemen of Verona which transferred to a Broadway run ).

This is derived partially from a search for Hebrew parallels with such ( etymologically unconnected ) European names as Ottilie, Odile and Ophelia, as well as with some Yiddish names.

Over the course of her career, Eliza played some 300 parts, as well as choral and dancing roles, including William Shakespeare characters Juliet Capulet and Ophelia.

An early appearance of the phrase in print occurs in Shakespeare's 1602 play Hamlet ( Act I, Scene III ), where Ophelia, rebuffing her brother Laertes ' insistence that she resist Hamlet's advances, warns Laertes against hypocrisy: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Chuck is a guitarist and singer ( or shouter ) in a rock band along with some other cavemen, his foxy blonde wife Ophelia Rock, and a long-haired dinosaur bass player ; and whilst on stage he wears a long wig to hide his balding head.

Ophelia caused some damage and beach erosion along the United States coastline from Florida to North Carolina, with its closest approach occurring on September 14 and 15 with its western eyewall crossing land and the eye remaining just offshore.

More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

In the 20th century feminist critics opened up new approaches to Gertrude and Ophelia.

The RSC gave her the opportunity to play many of the Shakespearean heroines, including Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Ophelia in Hamlet, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus and her Cleopatra, magisterial, ardent and seductive, in 1973, about which critics raved, and which is said to be a definitive performance.

Today's Armenian traditional songs can be associated with performers such as Rouben Matevosian, Ophelia Hambardzumyan, Varduhi Khachatrian, and Papin Poghosian.

The current distance of Cordelia and Ophelia from the ε ring can be used to estimate the ring ’ s age.

W. S. Gilbert's play is a comedy in which Rosencrantz plots with his friend Guildenstern to get rid of Hamlet, so that Rosencrantz can marry Ophelia.

Rosencrantz and Ophelia can now be together.

Each player can choose one of the four Chosen to control during the match-Caleb, Gabriella, Ishmael and Ophelia.

Gideon returns and carries Ophelia away before Caleb can rescue her.

Ophelia tells him not to be a hypocrite ( in telling her to behave herself with Hamlet, but then being immoral himself in France ).

* One of the towns on the brochure for " It Takes a Village to Raise a Child " is named Ophelia, perhaps referencing Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet ; Mr. Poe dislikes the bank in this town, perhaps because Ophelia's father is the originator of the saying " Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

This mechanism is known to be at work in the case of the ε ring, where Cordelia and Ophelia serve as shepherds.

A critic in The Times wrote that " there must be something strangely perverse in an imagination which souses Ophelia in a weedy ditch, and robs the drowning struggle of that lovelorn maiden of all pathos and beauty ", while a further review in the same newspaper said that " Mr. Millais's Ophelia in her pool ... makes us think of a dairymaid in a frolic ".

The following Master & Apprentice miniseries revealed that Snake Eyes, Nunchuk, and T ' Jbang are training Ophelia to be the last of the Arashikage ninja clan during the period that the two were engaged.

Prince Hamlet ( Bart ), with the help of a professional actor ( Krusty ), puts on a play to make Claudius reveal himself to be guilty ; however, Hamlet's reaction leads everyone to believe that he is crazy, so Ophelia ( Lisa ) decides to " out-crazy " him by prancing around and singing a stupid song, eventually jumping out the window and into the moat where she drowns.

** Ophelia ( Seiyū: Miki Narahashi )-Ophelia tends to be the " brains " behind any operation Valvoga does, and tends to be rather subtle in her manipulations.