So — “Woke” Isn’t a Recent Thing?

“… the actress Sarah Bernhardt, who, having played the role in a celebrated production in France in 1899, and again in London in 1901, declared that she could not imagine Hamlet “as a man.

— Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All, p.4.


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