Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and FictionThe first Hamlet on film was Sarah Bernhardt. Probably the first Hamlet on radio was Eve Donne. Ever since the late eighteenth century, leading actresses have demanded the right to play the role - Western drama's greatest symbol of active consciousness and conscience. Their iconoclasm, and Hamlet's alleged 'femininity', have fascinated playwrights, painters, novelists and film-makers from Eugène Delacroix and the Victorian novelist Mary Braddon to Angela Carter and Robert Lepage. Crossing national and media boundaries, this book addresses the history and the shifting iconic status of the female Hamlet in writing and performance. Many of the performers were also involved in radical politics: from Stalinist Russia to Poland under martial law, actresses made Hamlet a symbol of transformation or crisis in the body politic. On stage and film, women reinvented Hamlet from Weimar Germany to the end of the Cold War. This book aims to put their half-forgotten achievements centre-stage. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 13 |
Section 3 | 35 |
Section 4 | 37 |
Section 5 | 65 |
Section 6 | 77 |
Section 7 | 78 |
Section 8 | 83 |
Section 12 | 106 |
Section 13 | 107 |
Section 14 | 117 |
Section 15 | 137 |
Section 16 | 141 |
Section 17 | 150 |
Section 18 | 160 |
Section 19 | 183 |
Section 9 | 85 |
Section 10 | 88 |
Section 11 | 98 |
Section 20 | 184 |
Section 21 | 206 |
Section 22 | 265 |
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Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction Tony Howard No preview available - 2009 |
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