Taylor Swift ’s 12th studio album The Life of a Showgirl dropped Oct. 3, and William Shakespeare buffs will relish in the title of the first track “The Fate of Ophelia” and accompanying music video, inspired by the tragic play Hamlet (circa 1599-1601).

In the song, Swift sings of her heart being saved "from the fate of Ophelia," an apparent reference to her fiancé, Travis Kelce .

"And if you'd never come for me," goes the song. "I might've drowned in the melancholy."

The titular Ophelia is known in Shakespeare's Hamlet for tragically drowning after enduring rejection by Hamlet and his murder of her father. The line in Swift's song and The Life of a Showgirl 's cover art appears to be inspired by a Victorian-era painting that depicts the scene in Hamlet when Ophelia goes

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