Introduction : the drama of questions and the mystery of Hamlet
Playing Hamlet, writing the self
Virile spirits : Sarah Bernhardt and her inheritance
'I am whom I play' : Asta Nielsen
'Why are you looking at me like that?' : Zinaida Raikh
Behind the arras, through the Wall : Poland 1989
Hamlet from the margins : Spain, Turkey, Ireland
Films and fictions : Hamlet, men's eyes and the ages of woman
Women's voices in the cathedral of culture
Beyond silence, imagination.