The 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 Eugene 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.
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