Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
![Hamlet and Ophelia embrace in the Utah Shakespeare Festival production of Hamlet.](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2019/10/AHamlet-0603_web.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
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Utah Shakespeare Festival re-examines Hamlet and Ophelia
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 John William Waterhouse, Ophelia, 1910](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2017/01/John-William-Waterhouse-Ophelia-1910.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
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How Ophelia is represented in nineteenth-century English art
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 Ophelia from Hamlet](https://images.folger.edu/uploads/2016/11/002293-Ophelia.jpg?fit=10%2C10)
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Shakespeare and early modern girlhood
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 on a recent episode…