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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Laertes, in Shakespeare's
Hamlet, the brother of Ophelia.
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Ophelia's "old lauds": madness and hagiography in Hamlet.(Articles)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...questions, for as I will argue here, Ophelia's ravings also display a complex awareness...Despite modern contentions to the contrary, Ophelia's network of religious allusions does...to the "snatches of old lauds" that Ophelia sings at her death (4.7.176). The...
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Ophelia: a theory. (short story)(Focus on Asia and Australia)
Magazine article from: Hecate; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; I have a theory that Ophelia wasn't such a wholesome girl ... In fact, she...She didn't go mad because her father was slain. Ophelia went mad from some venereal disease. Ophelia was a pretty girl with a kind heart. She loved Hamlet...
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Framing Ophelia: representation and the pictorial tradition. (character in the drama 'Hamlet')
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Focusing on the way that Ophelia's death is "reported" in Hamlet...interpreter of the visual. Insofar as Ophelia is arguably Shakespeare's most recognizable...interpretations and popular imaginings of Ophelia's character, and equally in discussing...
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Rewriting Ophelia: giving girls a happy ending.(Go, Girl!)
Magazine article from: New Moon; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In seventh grade I joined Club Ophelia, in which middle-school girls learn about positive...unique activity: to write and perform a play! Club Ophelia is named after Ophelia from the tragic Shakespeare play Hamlet. Hamlet...
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Controlling and controlled: Ophelia and the Ghost as defined by music in Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 4/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...focuses on three characters: Hamlet, Ophelia, and the Ghost. Hamlet's music, initially...state at the time. (4) In contrast, Ophelia does not have a particular melodic motive...of the harpsichord. The character of Ophelia is always controlled by an influence outside...
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Julia Marlowe's Ophelia: a portrait of resistance and failure.
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 6/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...teamed with E. H. Sothern and played Ophelia for the first time, using a text cut...Marlowe supported him by Dortraying Ophelia with what Marvin Rosenberg calls a typically "sweet" Ophelia. (2) A reading of Sothern and Marlowe...
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Empowered by madness: Ophelia in the films of Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, and Branagh.(Grigori Kozintsev, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Literature-Film Quarterly; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...essay, three different interpretations of Ophelia in three films shot between the years...representation that opens up new ways of reading Ophelia. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Until the impact...exclusively to the submissiveness and madness of Ophelia. In 1817, for example, William Hazzlitt...
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Empowered by Madness: Ophelia in the Films of Kozintsev, Zeffirelli, and Branagh
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...essay, three different interpretations of Ophelia in three films shot between the years...representation that opens up new ways of reading Ophelia. Until the impact of feminist criticism...exclusively to the submissiveness and madness of Ophelia. In 1817, for example, William Hazzlitt...
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Claiming the body: the Ophelia myth in the GDR.(German Democratic Republic)(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Germanic Review; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Ophelia is a "found object," inherited from...and twentieth centuries. Originally, Ophelia was the young girl in love who lost her...the GDR present and earlier reception of Ophelia. The texts discussed make the drowned...
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Shakespeare's Hamlet. (meaning of Ophelia's distribution of herbs and flowers)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; When Ophelia in her madness begins to distribute flowers...immediately before and after these lines of Ophelia's, and therefore it is usually assumed...yet invoked. "Remembrances" are what Ophelia returns to Hamlet, because with his changed...
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Ophelia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
Ophelia The second-closest satellite of Uranus, distance 53 790 km...x2009;km, and it was discovered in 1986 with the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Ophelia and Cordelia are shepherd moons for the Epsilon ring of Uranus.
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Corralès, Ophelia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Corral è s, Ophelia Mysterious phosphorescent lights often seen over marshes or in churchyards. They are also known as "fetchlights," "jack o...
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Corralès, Ophelia (ca. 1908)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Corral è s, Ophelia (ca. 1908) Materialization medium of San Jos é , Costa Rica, of whose powers the most astounding claims were made in...
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Merchant, Natalie
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...Fair in 1998 and 1999, Merchant released Ophelia (1997), which peaked at number eight...the summer of 1998 helped spur sales. Ophelia 's first single, "Kind and Generous...The single landed in the Adult Top 40. Ophelia, named for the character in Shakespeare...
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Hamlet
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...x2019; ( iii . i) he repudiates Ophelia, whom he has loved, while spied on by Claudius and by Ophelia's father Polonius. He welcomes a troupe...s agents. During Hamlet's absence Ophelia has gone mad with grief from Hamlet...
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