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The point is, the next time someone puts on Hamlet, Ophelia really ought to be showing. Okay?

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The point is, the next time someone puts on Hamlet, Ophelia really ought to be showing. Okay?

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NOTE: A reader wrote in to remind me just how specific Gertrude is when she later describes Ophelia’s suicide — as if she saw it, but did nothing about it. That would make perfect sense if Gertrude knew Ophelia’s problem, and agreed that suicide was her only real option.