Word: ophelia
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from Booth's; it is not so artistic, but, like Fechter's, more even and consistent throughout. Hamlet, as Salvini shows him, is mad; but it is monomania. The idea of vengeance upon his father's murderer early fills his mind, even to the exclusion of his love for Ophelia. He forms his plan of action, and afterward lets nothing turn him aside from its execution...