There is a 1921 Danish Hamlet with Asta Nielsen in the title role, but that's not a sound film. There is also a Turkish film called Angel of Vengeance (1976), directed by Metin Erksan, where Hamlet is a woman, portrayed by Fatma Girik, a popular Turkish actress. Which then results in Ophelia being a man, named Orhan, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern being two young women named Rezzan and Gul (all three quite common Turkish names). Hamlet is still called Hamlet, though. Melis Behlil. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Andrew Hutchins <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:02 AM Subject: Shakespeare and gender > I just saw Almereyda's _Hamlet_, and in it, Paula Malcolmson plays > "Marcella," a female Marcellus who is presumably the girlfriend of > Horatio. On stage this is relatively common. I recently saw a > Western-style production of _The Taming of the Shrew_ at Ball state > University which had a Biondella and a Grumia, and the former seemed to > be Tranio's girlfriend. I know this occurred during the "silent" > period; Sarah Bernhardt played Hamlet in the 1900 film, a role she had > played over 300 imes on stage. Is anyone aware of any other sound films > which did this, particularly with supporting characters like Marcellus > whose gender was unimportant and the defaulted to male with the all-male > casts of Shakespeare's day? > > Scott > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite