Argues that critics have misunderstood the relationship between male playwrights and women's roles because they have neglected the interpretive skills of the ac

Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11

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

Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material

Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and l