Introduction : wresting an alphabet
Shakespeare without words : the nineteenth-century legacy
Biograph's pioneering film of King John (1899)
Conflicted allegiances in Shakespeare films of the transitional era
Corporate authorship : the Shakespeare films of the Vitagraph Company of America
Pedigree and performance codes in silent films of Hamlet
Shakespeare films of the 1916 tercentenary
Asta Nielsen and Emil Jannings : stars of German Shakespeare films of the early 1920s
Afterword : "No tongue, all eyes! Be silent" : performing wordless Shakespeare today.
