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

In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the domi

Well illustrated, accessibly presented, and drawing on a comprehensive range of historical documents, including British, German and other European images, and l