Women as Hamlet : performance and interpretation in theatre, film and fiction / Tony Howard

Includes index

Introduction : the drama of questions and the mystery of Hamlet -- Playing Hamlet, writing the self -- 'Is this womanly?' -- Virile spirits : Sarah Bernhardt and her inheritance -- 'I am whom I play' : Asta Nielsen -- 'Why are you looking at me like that?' : Zinaida Raikh -- Behind the arras, through the Wall : Poland 1989 -- Hamlet from the margins : Spain, Turkey, Ireland -- Films and fictions : Hamlet, men's eyes and the ages of woman -- Women's voices in the cathedral of culture -- Beyond silence, imagination