He entrusts Ophélie to take care of the melancholic Hamlet. All rights reserved. King Hamlet of Denmark has passed away and his widow, Gertrude, is remarrying her brother-in-law, Claudius, after only two months. (act 4 scene 5), Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown (act 3 scene 1), Good night, sweet ladies. [17][18] Ophélie s'inclina sobre el llac i s'ofega. Ophelia descends into mental illness and commits suicide by drowning herself. Entra Polonius i en la seva conversa amb Claudius revela la seva complicitat. It isn’t personal, as Hamlet now regards what he sees as his mother’s failings as the inherent qualities of all women – emotionally frail, unfaithful, whores, inconsistent, worthless – and his despair leads him to a cry of despair: “Frailty, thy name is woman!”. [18] This discourse of female madness influenced Ophelia's representation on stage from the 1660s, when the appearance of actresses in the English theatres first began to introduce "new meanings and subversive tensions" into the role: "the most celebrated of the actresses who played Ophelia were those whom rumor credited with disappointments in love". Claudius turns pale and commands the play to stop. He thinks nothing of using her as bait to demonstrate his theories about Hamlet’s behaviour to the king. Claudius entra i parla alt del seu remordiment. Asking her about her relationship with Hamlet he says: “What is between you?” adding, “Give up the truth.” When she tells him that he has “of late made many tenders of affection towards me,” he scoffs: “Pooh! Laertes warns her that Hamlet, the heir to the throne of Denmark, does not have the freedom to marry whomever he wants. Not only that but he discovers that his uncle has murdered his father. Hamlet’s friend, Horatio, and a sentry, Marcellus, tell the isolated prince that they saw the ghost of his father the previous night. Having returned from Norway, Laërte has learned of his sister's death. In Act One, scene three, where we first meet her, Laertes and Polonius admonish Ophelia not to trust Hamlet’s expressions of love. The combination of her former lover’s cruelty and her father’s death sends Ophelia into a fit of grief. He exits after declaring, "I say we will have no more marriages."

En una lúgubre balada, Ophélie canta sobre el Willis (deu d'aigua) que atrau els amants a la mort, arrossegant-los sota l'aigua fins que s'ofeguen. In Act Four she spirals into madness and dies under ambiguous circumstances. This performance is no longer viewable as video-on-demand for rights reasons but other material about the production is still available.

[22] Theatre manager Tate Wilkinson declared that next to Susannah Maria Cibber, Elizabeth Satchell (of the famous Kemble family) was the best Ophelia he ever saw. To Hamlet, she is a sexual object, a corrupt and deceitful lover. Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Choeur Les Eléments. In the past four hundred years, he has been analysed more than any other character. This page was last edited on 14 September 2020, at 19:02. In this ‘Hamlet,’ the Danish prince is proclaimed king Nov. 25, 2019. Horatio i Marcellus diuen als soldats que han vist el fantasma del pare de Hamlet en els merlets del castell la nit anterior i se'n van per explicar-ho a Hamlet. But she can't call him out on his language, because, as a good girl, she can't admit that she knows what it means. More info about Linked Data. Ophelia’s father, Polonius, constantly instructs her on how a woman should conduct herself, based on his own view of what that may be, and demands her obedience in that.