Women As Hamlet - Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Tony Howard is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Warwick. Klappentext A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Howard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521117210
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11721-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Individual actors and performers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean