Abstract

:Responding to audience expectations about female characters' scarcity, the filmmakers of four popular adaptations of Hamlet—Laurence Olivier (1948), Franco Zeffirelli (1990), Kenneth Branagh (1996), and Michael Almereyda (2000)—attempted to enhance Ophelia's character. By providing additional scenes and denser mise-en-scène, they tried to give the character greater agency.

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