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Emily Rowe, Lecturer in Early Modern Literature, King's College London

All the Shakespearean references in The White Lotus season three explained by an expert

Warning: this article contains major spoilers for the ending of White Lotus season three.

“Is this a bit ‘You killed my father, prepare to die,’ kind of?” asks Chelsea, the horoscope-obsessed Brit played with charm by Aimee Lou Wood in season three of The White Lotus.

Chelsea may be thinking of The Princess Bride (1987), but we’re firmly in Hamlet territory. Her partner Rick (Walton Goggins) soon sets off to avenge his father’s death and kicks off a chain of violence that ends, inevitably, in blood and tragedy.

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