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Shakespeare plays OPHELIA, an unhappy lover


Illustration: Shakespeare plays Ophelia dressed in white with a long ginger-coloured wig, and a garland of flowers about his neck; he looks distraught as he sings.

Ophelia's mind begins to unhinge when her father is killed by her adored Hamlet.
Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 5

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Don't miss Mr William Shakespeare as Richard III in:

The tragedy of KING RICHARD THE THIRD, with the course of his detested life, and most deserved death, as it hath been lately played by his Highness's servants in the City of London.

At the Globe, May 7th 1607

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