SOURCE: "A She Hamlet," in Literature and Life, Kennikat Press, Inc., 1968, pp.
In the following essay, Howells offers a negative review of Bernhardt's Hamlet, arguing that a woman in the title role is a perversion of the integrity of the drama.
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