Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most absurd objection was that "the story itself seemed dated." It is fantastic to try to imagine eliminating novels and plays from our literature on the criterion of datedness. Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, to name only two, would have to go immediately...
...modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life...
...Marcello: Introduction, Aria and Presto (A); Haydn: Quartet in B minor, Op. 64, #2 (Quinten) (W); Liszt: Hamlet (L.); Prokoviev: Sonata #4 in C minor for piano (A); Handel: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 #9 (C); Mozart: Coronation Mass...
...Hamlet (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Old Vic's production, which recently disappointed Broadway but seems a brave effort...
Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Henry V, played by London's Old Vic Company, in WASHINGTON...