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  • “Sweets to the sweet: Farewell!” were Hamlet's mother's words at this woman's funeral
  • Knowing it's from the Greek for "serpent" might turn you off this name of a doomed lass in "Hamlet"
  • She tells Laertes, "There's rosemary, that's for remembrance....and there is pansies, that's for thoughts"
  • Mary Pipher's bestseller about troubled teen girls is called "Reviving" this Hamlet heroine
  • Soon after Hamlet finishes his "Alas, poor Yorick!" speech he sees this woman's funeral procession
  • Laertes tells her, "For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor" are "not permanent, sweet, not lasting"
  • Queen Gertrude reports this woman's death by drowning
  • Hamlet tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery"
  • Oh, dear! This heroine strangles herself with a microphone cord in the offbeat musical "Rockabye Hamlet"
  • Fair one, thy dad had thee repel my letters & deny me access to thee... but a restraining order? What is uppeth with that?
  • (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE): Sir John Everett Millais painted an 1852 portrait of this Shakespearean heroine, seen here
  • The daughter of Polonius
  • Hamlet tells her "Get thee to a nunnery", which might have meant a brothel
  • Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir John Everett Millais painted this "Hamlet" heroine afloat in a pond
  • She was worried when Hamlet came to her "pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other"
  • This girl gets mixed up with Hamlet & ends up drowned
  • When Robert Helpmann's "Hamlet" ballet premiered in 1942, Margot Fonteyn danced this ingenue role
  • Sir John Everett Millais captured the madness of this tragic character seen here

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