Shakespeare Reference in An Unfinished Woman

Lillian Hellman’s memoir An Unfinished Woman contains a reference to Hamlet. Hellman writes, “Although I have long ago lost the diary of that trip, Dash was right: I did not enjoy the Moscow Theatre Festival, except for a production of Hamlet with the Prince played as a fat young man in a torpor” (p. 68).

An Unfinished Woman was published in 1969. The Bantam edition was published in 1970. The copy I read was from the eighth printing.