Word: hamlet
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...Hamlet in French. And there was drama. The Scottish Repertory's production of Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, a Scottish morality play written in 1540 and last performed in 1554, was a high point of the festival. There was a production of the André Gide Hamlet. ("A moving experience," reported the New York Times's Dyneley Hussey of the famous soliloquies, though Hamlet in French, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, kept his voice pitched at "a tart oboe rather than the rich clarinet of English.") And for trimmings there was Highland music, bagpipe parades...
...Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28) opened in Boston last week. It was a box-office sellout. But the theater was picketed-by an organization called the Sons of Liberty (an insurgent Jewish group renounced by both U.S. and British Zionists) and a delegation from the Irish Republican Prisoners' Release Association, who came up from New York...
...significant . . . that you have illustrated your entrancing and masterful article on Olivier's Hamlet with the Ashbourne portrait which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library. This has lately been revealed by X-ray and infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
Furthermore, research . . . and studies now being made of the plays and poems prove beyond doubt that the true author of these . . . was the 17th Earl of Oxford, using the pseudonym, "William Shakespeare." His noblest drama, Hamlet, was largely autobiographical...
Hollywood's Bette Davis and Charles Laughton squared off over Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (TIME, June 28). Bette agreed with Hearstling Jimmy Starr who said he "didn't like" the movie and that "I'm bored with Shakespeare." Pronounced Laughton: "It saddens me that Hollywood should be made to look even sillier than ever by one of its prominent artists . . . That I have not seen Sir Laurence Olivier's Hamlet is irrelevant...