Tony Howard

Women as Hamlet

Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117210
• ISBN-10: 0521117216
• Artikelnr.: 26204524

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.