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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.

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