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Rachel Stewart

is studying at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, where she recently submitted her PhD on the performance history of madness in Hamlet. She also holds an MA in Shakespeare and Theatre from The Shakespeare Institute.
How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1910
Shakespeare and Beyond

How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art

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Rachel Stewart

Victorian artists in England painted many portraits of Ophelia, including this one from 1889 by John William Waterhouse.