1. See S. I. Hayakawa, “What Does It Mean to Be Creative?” Through the Communication Barrier, ed. Arthur Chandler (New York: Harper & Row, 1979) 104–05; see also “News and Notes,” British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Edition) 284.6327 (1982): 1483. This is not to be confused with popular usage of the term that has little to do with Hamlet or Ophelia, such as the pop/rock band Ophelia Syndrome that was formed in 1998.
2. Kimberly Rhodes, Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2008) 89.
3. See Yasunari Takahashi, “Hamlet and the Anxiety of Modern Japan,” Shakespeare Survey 48 (1995): 99–111.
4. Shihoko Hamada, “Kojin and Hamlet The Madness of Hamlet, Ophelia, and Ichiro,” Comparative Studies 33.1 (1996): 59–68.
5. David Der-wei Wang, Fictional Realism in Twentieth-Century China: Mao Dun, Lao She, Shen Congwen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992) 126.