Cultural references to Ophelia

Ophelia, a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet, is often referred to in literature and the arts,[1] often in connection to suicide, love, and/or mental instability.

Ophelia was a favorite subject of artist John William Waterhouse . [ citation needed ]
Ophelia by John Everett Millais (1852) is part of the Tate Gallery collection. His painting influenced the image in both Laurence Olivier 's and Kenneth Branagh 's films of Hamlet . [ citation needed ]
Ophelia as appeared in The Works of Shakspere, with notes by Charles Knight , ca. 1873
The Play Scene in Hamlet (1897) by Edwin Austin Abbey .
The First Madness of Ophelia (1864), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti