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Ophelia by John Everett MILLAIS is one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite works in the Tate's collection. Shakespeare was a frequent source of inspiration for Victorian painters. Ophelia is a character in Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. She is driven mad when her father, Polonius, is murdered by her lover, Hamlet. She dies while still very young in grief and madness. The events shown in Millais's Ophelia are not actually seen on stage. Instead they are referred to in a conversation between Queen Gertrude and Ophelia's brother Laertes. Gertrude describes how Ophelia fell into the river whilst picking flowers and slowly drowned, singing all the while. Hamlet, Act IV, Scene VII Laertes Drowned! O, where? Queen Gertrude There is a willow grows askant the brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. Therewith fantastic garlands did she make Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead-men's-fingers call them. There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up; Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. Laertes saule, audessus du, ruisseau feuilles, le mirroir de l’eau couronnes de fleurs orties, paquerettes, fleurs mauves bergers, commun nom d’une sorte d’orchidée rameau (du saule), couronne de fleurs en essayant de, branche qui pleure, étendus ressemblant à une sirène, tandis que extracts who lives in the water clothes, water attracted, song boueuse Alas, then she is drowned? Queen Gertrude Drowned, drowned noyée