Word: burtons
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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...
...fine rhetoric of your charitable review of Burton's Hamlet obscures the degree to which Burton's talents have been misused and misapplied in this production. This is not an intellectual's Hamlet, but a dilettante's. It is not drama at all, but rather an elegant play-reading...
...Burton's voice is fine, but his Hamlet lacks nobility. He is all surface; at best Gielgud's puppet. When he soliloquizes, he is not a distressed man deliberating a painful dilemma, but an actor delivering, with some embarrassment, a difficult soliloquy. He acts the part well, but he never becomes...