Bard's relative may have inspired tragic Ophelia
Un nuovo studio su un rapporto del coroner del 1569 mostra come la morte per annegamento di una possibile parente di Shakespeare avrebbe potuto costituire una fonte d'ispirazione per il personaggio di Ofelia in Hamlet.
"Coroner's reports of accidental deaths in Tudor England showed that a Jane Shaxspere drowned aged two-and-a-half while picking corn marigolds 20 miles (32 kilometres) from Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home, researchers found.
In Shakespeare's classic, Ophelia drowns in a brook after hanging flowers in a willow tree. The poetic moment is famously captured in John Everett Millais's 1852 painting.
The Bard would have been five at the time of Jane Shaxspere's 1569 death, and the Oxford team believe the two children may have been related."
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