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** See also Beckett's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNti7qCn-kg Not I]''. Justified that the subject is, in fact, a mute woman who has a lot to say about her traumatic life, but who would understand that from the rantings alone?
* Blanche from ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
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▲** Interestingly, some of what Ophelia says ''does'' mean something. When she hands out her flowers, each one is symbolic of various things. For example, violets were symbolic of innocence and she explains that they all vanished when her father died.
▲*** Also, see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0uVGCYRP4I this clip] from the Canadian series ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'', in which director Geoffery Tennant attempts to explain to actress Claire that her dialogue is not merely a bunch of "nonsense songs".
** Hamlet himself invokes this trope while feigning madness.
* Subverted and played straight in
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