T.S. Ophelia
Art Neuendorffer
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<<Englishwoman whose death may be reflected in that of
Ophelia in _HAMLET_. A resident of Tippinton, a village
near Stratford, Mistress Hamlett was DROWNED in the AVON RIVER
while fetching water, and a coroner's jury hesitated over the
possibility of suicide before declaring, two months later, that she
had died a natural death. It has been speculated that the coincidental
similarity between a family name he once knew and the name of his
protagonist might have recalled Katherine Hamlett's death to the
playwright -- who was 15 when it occurred -- as he described Ophelia's
death by drowning, declared 'doubtful' by the Priest, although the
coroner 'finds it Christian burial.'>> - _SHAKESPEARE A TO Z_
KATHERINE HAMLETT died on December 18, 1579
(during Venus-Moon/Mercury/Sun conj.)
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Saturnalia / OPALIA : DECEMBER 19
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<<OPS (Opis) The Roman goddess of the earth as a source of fertility,
and a goddess of abundance and wealth in general (her name means
"plenty"). As goddess of harvest she is closely associated with the
god Consus. She is the sister and wife of Saturn. One of her temples
was located near Saturn's temple, and a festival took place there
on August 10. Another festival was the Opalia, which was observed
on DECEMBER 19. On the Forum Romanum she shared a sanctuary
with the goddess Ceres as the protectors of the harvest.
The major temple was of OPS Capitolina, on the Capitoline Hill,
where Caesar had located the Treasury.>>
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Edward de Vere marries only daughter of *TREASUREr* Lord Burghley:
Anne Cecil [age *15*] on OPALIA [i.e., OPHELIA]: DECEMBER 19, 1571
(during Venus/URANUS/Sun conj.)
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[Hamlet (Quarto 2) 2.2]
Enter the Players (/MAISTER MASONS).
Ham. O Ieptha Iudge of Israell, what a TREASURE had'st thou?
Pol. What a TREASURE had he my Lord?
Ham. Why one faire daughter and no more,
the which he loued passing well.
Pol. Still on my daughter.
Ham. Am I not i'th right old Ieptha?
Pol. If you call me Ieptha my Lord, I haue a daughter that I loue
Ham. Nay that followes not. (passing well.
Pol. What followes then my Lord?
Ham. Why as by lot God wot, and then you knowe it came to
passe, as most like it was; the first rowe of the pious chanson
will showe you more, for looke where my abridgment comes.
Enter the Players.
Ham. You are welcome maisters, welcome all, I am glad to see thee
well, welcome good friends, oh old friend, why thy FACE is VA-
LANCT since I saw thee last, com'st thou to beard me in Denmark?
what my young Lady and mistris, by lady your Ladishippe is
nerer to heauen, then when I saw you last by the altitude of a
chopine, pray God your voyce like a peece of vncurrant gold,
BEE NOT CRACKT WITHIN THE RING: MAISTERS you are all welcome. . .
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Margaret Cl[OP]ton
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<<Of the story of Margaret Clopton, who drowned herself in
the well which afterwards bore her name [little is known].>>
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Charlotte Cl[OP]ton
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<<A gruesome story, which, naturally enough, impressed itself
upon the young Elizabeth Stevenson's quick imagination,
was the "legend" told to her at Stratford Church of
Charlotte Clopton. It dates from one of the plague years, of
which Stratford - notoriously insanitary - had more than its share
of experience, about the middle of the century, very probably from
the summer of 1564, when the town was stricken by one of the most
fearful epidemics that ever visited it, and lost one-seventh of
its inhabitants by the pestilence. Nothing is more likely than
that Charlotte Clopton's doom should have suggested to
Shakespeare the agonising fears of Juliet.>>
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CLoPTon vAULT => CAPULeT
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http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/EG-Clopton.html
<<Sir Hugh Clopton, who had made a fortune in the City, where he
was Lord Mayor in 1492, in his latter days withdrew to Stratford,
in whose neighbourhood his family had been settled for something
like three centuries. Here he built for himself a house of more
importance than any other in the town, which was still called
New Place>>
<<Charlotte Clopton, about whom there was so fearful a legend told
at Stratford church: In the time of some epidemic, the sweating-
sickness or the plague, this young girl had sickened, & to all
appearance died. She was buried with fearful haste in the vaults
of Clopton chapel, attached to Stratford church, but the sickness
was not stayed. In a few days another of the Cloptons died, and
him they bore to the ancestral vault; but as they descended the
gloomy stairs, they saw by the torchlight, Charlotte Clopton in
her grave-clothes leaning against the wall; and when they looked
nearer, she was indeed dead, but not before, in the agonies of
despair and hunger, she had bitten a piece from her white round
shoulder! Of course, she had walked ever since. This was
'Charlotte's chamber,'>> -- Elizabeth Gaskell
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OPs/CLOPton/PeLOPs
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William Oxley: The Shoulder of PeLOPs
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx/lynx68.html
<<Tantalus, beloved of the Gods, invited them to dinner:
determined on a meal with a difference. Every host will know
the feeling. Tantalus who killed his son Pelops, cut him up, boiled
and served him as a ragoût extraordinaire. The Immortals - heavenly
palates untitillated - knowing all things, refused to touch the meal;
all save Demeter that is who, distracted with grief at the recent loss
of her daughter, inadvertently tucked into the meal before the other
Gods could stop her, and ate Pelops' shoulder. Then Zeus had Tantalus
arrested and jailed forever among the immortal dead. After which the
Olympian chief ordered Hermes - with whom Pelops' soul now was - to
collect the dismembered pieces and place them in a cauldron, re-heat
same, and bring Pelops back to life.
When this remarkable process of re-heating was over, Clotho - she of
the 3 Fates whose job it is to spin the thread of a man's life - took
the restored Pelops out of the cauldron and, as one shoulder was
missing, fitted him up with an ivory replacement. Thereafter, all his
descendants, the Pelopidae, as a mark of their origin were
supposed to have one shoulder as white as ivory.>>
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Emily Bronte died away from doctors
with only immediate family and Keeper her
(3 headed?) bulldog attending the funeral. December 19, 1848
Robinson Crusoe rescued December 19, 1686
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"Q" (i.e., Desmond Llewelyn [age 85]) dies on DECEMBER 19, 1999
"G" (i.e., Greg Reynolds) born on DECEMBER 19, 1951
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Herman Melville Letter to RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD, December 19 1851
http://www.melville.org/hmquotes.htm
<<I never had the honor of knowing, or even seeing, Mr Cooper
personally; so that, through my past ignorance of his person,
the man, though dead, is still as living to me as ever.
And this is very much; for his works are among the earliest
I remember, as in my boyhood producing a vivid,
and awakening power upon my mind.
It has always much pained me, that for any reason, in his latter
years, his fame at home should have apparently received a slight,
temporary clouding, from some very paltry accidents, incident, more
or less, to the general career of letters. But whatever possible
things in Mr Cooper may have seemed, to have, in some degree,
provoked the occasional treatment he received, it is certain,
that he possessed no slightest weaknesses, but those, which are
only noticeable as the almost infallible indices of pervading
greatness. He was a great, robust-souled man, all whose merits
are not even yet fully appreciated. But a grateful posterity
will take the best of care of Fennimore Cooper.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
sympo...@aol.com
named storm. But we're waiting it out here in Florida. It doesn't look
like she'll pack a huge wallop but it's been pretty wet here for the
past few days, and there's no telling yet which way she will move.
One of my concerns is that we've got Katrina survivors here in Florida
who are liable to be upset at the very *thought* of going through
another hurricane, possibly threatening a loved one's home.
"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,
love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts."
-- Ann
Art Neuendorffer
of a named storm. But we're waiting it out here in Florida.
It doesn't look like she'll pack a huge wallop
but it's been pretty wet here for the past few days,>>
LAERTES: Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
QUEEN GERTRUDE: Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS.p19r0/si.kmlb.shtml
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Ann: << and there's no telling yet which way she will move.>>
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BAPTISTA: Proceed in practise with my younger daughter;
She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns.
... Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?
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Ann: <<One of my concerns is that we've got Katrina survivors here
in Florida who are liable to be upset at the very *thought* of going
through another hurricane, possibly threatening a loved one's home.>>
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Dithering Ophelia keeps trackers guessing
-- by Robert P. King Thursday, September 08, 2005
<<Acting more like Hamlet than Ophelia, Florida's latest
tropical threat wandered aimlessly offshore Wednesday,
unable to decide where to go.
Tropical Storm Ophelia sat almost stationary Wednesday night 85 miles
east-northeast of Cape Canaveral, brushing the Central and North
Florida coast with showers, gusty 50-mph winds and a battering surf.
That's pretty much where the storm is likely to stay for the next
five days as it slowly strengthens to hurricane status and could
begin a Jeanne-like loop toward shore.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center called Ophelia's
ultimate path nearly impossible to discern. The storm sits between
a high-pressure zone to the west & a weak trough to the northeast.
Some computer forecasting models call for Ophelia to swing out to
sea; others say it will curve back toward Florida. One model, which
on Tuesday predicted the storm would hit Katrina-ravaged Louisiana,
on Wednesday had it slicing across North Florida, Georgia & Alabama.>>
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Art Neuendorffer
LynnE
Keep safe, Ann.
Love,
Lynne
sympo...@aol.com
potential hazard of picking up strength and coming back on land. They
are predicting that impact might happen somewhat north of here, but
everything's iffy.
For now, at least, the weather's improved. No more torrents of rain,
and gusty winds.
It did make me think of a twist on "Hamlet" where Ophelia's death is
faked and she comes back to exact her own vengeance. Made me think of
Richard Nathan's "A Night in Elsinore," but in it his Ophelia never has
the chance. : )
-- Ann
sympo...@aol.com
and sympathies for those along the Carolina coast.
--Ann
Art Neuendorffer
> Well, looks like the danger is long past for my community.
> My concern and sympathies for those along the Carolina coast.
And sympathies for all those weather forecasters
who continue to be driven crazy by Ophelia.
Art N.
Art Neuendorffer
Ham. Nay then I haue an eye of you:
if you loue me hold not off.
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<<Ophelia's intensity has remained steady at 75 kt.
The convective organization and vertical development
has continued to improve as noted in radar and satellite
imagery...and the unusually large 50 nmi diameter eye has become
more distinct with a sharper edge noted in the inner eyewall.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/gscb10.05257.1900.gif
There is a small window of opportunity
for Ophelia to reach category 2 status>>
-- Hurricane Ophelia Discussion Number 35
Statement as of 5:00 PM EDT on September 14, 2005
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