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HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet would have liked to have been -masterly, heroic, and never self-doubting. The tragedy is missing, but the production is lucid, fresh and vivid, and Burton makes the lines ring with present meaning rather than bygone eloquence...
BECKET. Richard Burton as England's 12th century martyr opposes Peter O'Toole as King Henry II in this superbly played, eye-and ear-filling film spectacle based on Jean Anouilh's pungent historical drama...
...Your theater critic wrote the only review of Burton's Hamlet worth reading [April 17]. TIME displays a sensitivity in the arts heretofore manifest only in journals of more modest circulation...
HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet would have liked to have been-masterly, heroic, and never self-doubting. The tragedy is missing, but the production is lucid, fresh and vivid, and Burton makes the lines ring with present meaning rather than bygone eloquence...
...rehearsal clothes in which this Hamlet is performed tend to reduce the actors to the unregality of their garb. But Shakespeare's kingliest crown is English, and as this 400th anniversary year begins, Richard Burton's lips are brushing it with glory...