Cowden Clarke, "Ophelia; The Rose of Elsinore," The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (Pages 196-197)
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Title
Cowden Clarke, "Ophelia; The Rose of Elsinore," The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (Pages 196-197)
Description
Pages 196-197: Ophelia’s wet nurse’s troubled son frightens Ophelia with attention and cruelty. Note Cowden Clark’s interest in representing the boy’s violence toward flies in ways figured in other Shakespeare scenes, King Lear 4.1 and Titus Andronicus’s fly-killing scene.
Creator
Mary Cowden Clarke
Source
University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, OR
Publisher
A.C. Armstrong & Sons
Date
1887
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
Language
en
Coverage
New York, New York
Citation
Mary Cowden Clarke, “Cowden Clarke, "Ophelia; The Rose of Elsinore," The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (Pages 196-197),” accessed October 21, 2026, https://timespencil.org/items/show/66.