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

Both Polonius and Laertes warn Ophelia that Hamlet is surely not serious about her.

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.

" She gives the example of Hamlet's advice to Ophelia, " get thee to a nunnery ", which is simultaneously a reference to a place of chastity and a slang term for a brothel, reflecting Hamlet's confused feelings about female sexuality.

Ophelia ( character ) | Ophelia is distracted by grief.

Ophelia, by some critics, can be honest and fair ; however, it is virtually impossible to link these two traits, since ' fairness ' is an outward trait, while ' honesty ' is an inward trait.

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

Conventional theories had argued that without these three powerful men making decisions for her, Ophelia is driven into madness.

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 ).

In Svich's play, Ophelia is resurrected and rises from a pool of water, after her death in Hamlet.

Back in New Orleans, St. Clare debates slavery with his Northern cousin Ophelia who, while opposing slavery, is prejudiced against black people.

In contrast to Ophelia is Dinah, who operates on passion.

During the course of the novel Ophelia is transformed, just as the Republican Party ( three years later ) proclaimed that the North must transform itself and stand up for its antislavery principles.

: There is also an asteroid called 171 Ophelia.

Ophelia ( ) is a moon of Uranus.

The orbit of Ophelia is within the synchronous orbit radius of Uranus, and therefore the moon is slowly decaying due to tidal forces.

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.

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

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

Millais used the Hogsmill river, near Tolworth Court Bridge, as the background for his painting Ophelia.

Ophelia ( painting ) | Ophelia, by John Everett Millais

The building is on the River Hogsmill ( the banks of which were immortalised in the Pre-Raphaelite painting of Ophelia ( painting ) by John Everett Millais ).

He submitted his Ophelia painting of 1888 in order to receive his diploma from the Royal Academy.

Waterhouse would paint Ophelia again in 1894 and 1909 or 1910, and planned another painting in the series, called " Ophelia in the Churchyard ".

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal ( 25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862 ) was an English artists ' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais ( including Millais ' 1852 painting Ophelia ) and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.

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Ward's painting of Charlotte Corday being led to execution beat Millais's Ophelia for a prize at Liverpool, leading to much debate at the time.

The painting depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing while floating in a river just before she drowns.

* Millais Ophelia – a website about the painting

* smARThistory: Ophelia – a short video podcast about the painting

Karyn Dwyer plays a young working class mother dying of cancer who wishes to die a beautiful and poetic death like that portrayed in Millais's famous painting of Ophelia.

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

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

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

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

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.