Women as Hamlet : Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction (Paperback)

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction: The drama of questions and the mystery of Hamlet; Part I. The Women in Black: 2. Playing Hamlet, writing the self; 3. 'Is this womanly?'; 4. Virile spirits: Sarah Bernhardt and her inheritance; Part II. Case Studies: Hamlet, the Actress and the Political Stage: 5. 'I am whom I play': Asta Nielsen; 6. 'Why are you looking at me like that?': Zinaida Raikh; 7. Behind the arras, through the Wall: Poland 1989; 8. Hamlet from the margins: Spain, Turkey, Ireland; Part III. Repression and Resurgence: 9. Films and fictions: Hamlet, men's eyes and the ages of woman; 10. Women's voices in the cathedral of culture; 11. Beyond silence, imagination; Index.