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Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
Hamlet and Ophelia embrace in the Utah Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet.
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Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia

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Ben Lauer

The Utah Shakespeare Festival has a fresh take on Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship, inspired by Artistic Collaborator Jerry Murdock.

How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1910
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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.

Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
Ophelia from Hamlet
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Shakespeare and early modern girlhood

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Esther French

The word “girl” means different things to us today than it meant in the Middle Ages, and Shakespeare was writing at a time when that meaning was changing, as Deanne Williams of York University in Toronto explains.