Sarah Siddons plays Hamlet. With thanks to The British Library/ She played the role only on a cluster of occasions and only in provincial theatres in the English Regions. This British Library ...

Sarah Siddons was likely the first woman to play Hamlet in 1775; more recently, the mighty Peake starred in Sarah Frankcom’s Manchester Royal Exchange production in 2014. With close-cropped hair ...

Stars such as the famous female performer Sarah Siddons, who played the role of Hamlet several times – as well as Juliet, or Lady Macbeth. In 1788 a theatre playbill, now lodged in the British ...