Prince Hamlet
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Prince Hamlet is the title character and protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the Prince of Denmark, nephew of the usurping Claudius, and son of King Hamlet, the previous King of
Portrait of Hamlet by William Morris Hunt, c. 1864
A statue of Hamlet with the skull of Yorick in Stratford-upon-Avon
Hamlet reclines next to Ophelia in Edwin Austin Abbey's The Play Scene in Hamlet (1897)
Marcellus, Horatio, Hamlet, and the Ghost by Henry Fuseli
Ophelia
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Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. Due to Hamlet's act
Prince Hamlet
…Laertes, Claudius, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two acquaintances of his from childhood. He is also indirectly involved in the deaths of his love Ophelia (drowning) and of his mother Gertrude (mistakenly poisoned by Claudius). The play opens with Hamlet deeply depressed over the recent death of his father…
John William Waterhouse's painting Ophelia (1894)
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V (Ophelia Before the King and Queen), Benjamin West, 1792
Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852) is part of the collection of Tate Britain. His painting influenced the image in Kenneth Branagh's film Hamlet.
Ophelia by Alexandre Cabanel (1883)