id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_hej7xirnsnfgfooktxrcq6ge7q Kendra Leonard The Lady Vanishes: Vocality and Agency in Cinematic Ophelias 2016 18 .pdf application/pdf 7487 487 69 Zeffirelli's and Almereyda's films, the text of Ophelia's report of Hamlet's Within the text, Ophelia's role is an important one, advancing the investigation into Hamlet's apparent madness and later offering the audience crucial information as to the true state of corruption within the court. Ophelia's songs have not been found, they "clearly belong to the popular ballad tradition." 6 English stage history records that, in Shakespeare's time, the music: a score that was highly continuous over the course of the film, including the use of leitmotifs to help audiences identify characters and their emotions and actions. show, this gendering through vocality and music by Olivier is but the beginning of a larger trend among directors of cinematic Hamlet s and film more Almereyda's Ophelia is given the fewest lines of any film Hamlet discussed up to this point. Leslie Dunn, "Ophelia's Songs in Hamlet : Music, Madness, and the Feminine," ./cache/work_hej7xirnsnfgfooktxrcq6ge7q.pdf ./txt/work_hej7xirnsnfgfooktxrcq6ge7q.txt