So — “Woke” Isn’t a Recent Thing? Posted by Oppo on 7 February 2020, 7:00 pm “… 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.