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.
Women as Hamlet : performance and interpretation in theatre, film and fiction by Tony Howard. ISBN 9780521864664. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.