Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAMLET. Everything about Ellis Rabb's APA production is peculiarly wrong, including Rabb's portrayal of Hamlet as if the Prince of Denmark were in desperate need of geriatric drugs...
...HAMLET. The question has often been asked: "What is Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark?" One answer is given in Ellis Rabb's APA revival. Rabb is the definitive zombie Hamlet, a puppet rather than a mettlesome prince. The production, like the star, is passionless and bloodless...
...Greyhound Inn, the Toucan Terribles set out last week to defend their title of World Marbles Champions. For twelve straight years, the Terribles had won the colors. This year, however, the very honor of England was at stake. Among the 15 challengers scheduled to appear at Tinsley Green, a hamlet (pop. 150) just 28 miles south of London, was a band of upstart colonials from Chicago...
...parade of prejudice for objective appraisal." The latter type has three awful exemplars in Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and Charles Osborne, who recently collaborated on a book called Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without. As the selections begin with Beowulf, and include such dispensable works as Hamlet, Pilgrim's Progress, the poetry of Hopkins and Eliot, it is clear that the three iconoclasts are prepared to do without a great deal that Burgess is not. The essay in which Burgess puts a few of the 50 treasures back in their places, and the three "naughty, smackable...
...every possible error of style and taste, including the inexcusable fault of letting Steiger chew up every piece of scenery in sight. Exhuming his Oscar-winning sorghum accent from In the Heat of the Night, he gets more syllables out of a conjunction than most other actors could from Hamlet's second soliloquy. Steiger's performance, which is well below his usual high standard, sadly lacks the quality of magic that separates simple fantasy from a waking nightmare...