Mata Hari is one of history's ultimate femme fatales. She gained fame for her seductive dancing, only to be executed by the French for being a double agent. These days, her name is a byword for ...

History has judged Mata Hari harshly as the archetypal treacherous femme fatale. In The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari, playwright Diane Samuels presents us with a woman condemned in a man’s world, ...