The king's long-winded chief counsellor in Shakespeare's 哈姆雷特, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Hamlet stabs him through a curtain while he eavesdrops; his advice "To thine own self be true" is often quoted.
Polonius was hiding behind the curtain eavesdropping when Hamlet stabbed him to death.
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Chinese editions do not agree on his name: besides 波洛涅斯 you will meet 波隆尼尔. Fittingly for the play's most long-winded man, he is the one who says 'Brevity is the soul of wit'.
Shakespeare's tragedy where Polonius serves as Lord Chamberlain - long-winded counselor, father to Ophelia and Laertes, stabbed through the curtain in Act III.
