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Hamlet’s ‘Adventurous Knight’

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The weight of water

A shared feminine experience

Victoria Leslie examines the feminine associations with water in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’ and Hardy’s The Return of the Native

The Lady of Shalott by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1875)
Fine Art Photographic Library/Corbis

Hamlet: AQA (A) Literature; AQA (A) Language and literature;

AQA (B) Language and literature; WJEC

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