Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction »

Tony Howard is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Warwick.

A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen.

List of illustrations     vii
Preface     ix
Introduction. The drama of questions and the mystery of Hamlet     1
The Women in Black
Playing Hamlet, writing the self     35
'Is this womanly?'     65
Virile spirits: Sarah Bernhardt and her inheritance     98
Case Studies: Hamlet, The Actress and the Political Stage
'I am whom I play': Asta Nielsen     137
'Why are you looking at me like that?': Zinaida Raikh     160
Behind the arras, through the Wall: Poland 1989     183
Hamlet from the margins: Spain, Turkey, Ireland     206
Repression and Resurgence
Films and fictions: Hamlet, men's eyes, and the ages of woman     237
Women's voices in the cathedral of culture     265
Beyond silence, imagination     300
Index     321