The Female Hamlet The idea of a women acting has Hamlet is not incredibly new. In 1899 Sarah Bernhardt took on the role of Hamlet. ... In 1920 a female Hamlet was produced with the belief that Hamlet could never have been a man due to Hamlet's procrastinating tendencies. This comes from a Victorian interpretation of Hamlet that could trace its roots to Edward P. ... Fatma Girik's Hamlet of 1977 casts Hamlet as a female who is raised as a male. ...

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