Preface
Introduction: wresting an alphabet
1. Shakespeare without words: the nineteenth-century legacy
2. Biograph's pioneering film of King John (1899)
3. Conflicted allegiances in Shakespeare films of the transitional era
4. Corporate authorship: the Shakespeare films of the Vitagraph Company of America
5. Pedigree and performance codes in silent films of Hamlet
6. Shakespeare films of the 1916 tercentenary
7. Asta Nielsen and Emil Jannings: stars of German Shakespeare films of the early 1920s
8. Afterword: 'No tongue, all eyes! Be silent': performing wordless Shakespeare today
Filmography: A. Commercially available Shakespeare films of the silent era
B. General filmography
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