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By Elizabeth Bell - May 12, 2003

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Both William Shakespeare, likely the greatest English playwright of all time, and Henrik Ibsen, arguably one of the most brilliant and influential modern dramatists, are known not only for the power of their tragedies but also for their memorable female characters. Among the most famous of these is Shakespeare’s Ophelia, Hamlet’s doomed…

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