Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

1. Ophelia

A Case Study

2. Helena

Heroine or Harpy?

3. Portia, Viola (& Imogen)

A Year of Playing Boys

4. Imogen

Peeling Back the Layers

5. Lady Macbeth

A Portrait of a Marriage

6. Beatrice

A Woman with a Past

7. Two Loves

Or, The Eternal Triangle

8. Cleopatra

The Consummate Actress

9. Brutus

The Honorary Man

10. Henry IV

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’

Epilogue

A Letter to Will

A Chronology of Shakespearean Performances

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