Word: ophelia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK CITY. Richard Burton's Hamlet will continue to run for two more weeks on Broadway; during its extended run, Burton's standby, Robert Burr, played Hamlet for Joseph Papp's free Shakespeare group in Central Park in a production that, with Julie Harris as Ophelia, outdistanced the one on Broadway in nearly every respect save the performance of Burton himself. Papp's group is still doing a successful, broad-laugh presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from a collapsible mobile theater touring the five Boroughs* (TIME, July 10), and at present in Central...
...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...
Anne Byrd is successful with Ophelia's mad scenes, but her earlier ones have not been properly thought out. Her brother Laertes (Terence Scammell) is a good-looking adolescent, warm and bubbly, who gets into trouble only when he jumps into Ophelia's grave, where his ranting becomes completely unintelligible. (I'd like to see him try Romeo.) As the First Gravedigger, Rex Everhart extracts much from both the part and the ground, including, besides the two traditional skulls, an entire array of ribs, ulnas and femurs...
Born. To Patricia Neal, 38, Academy Award-winning cinemactress for her portrait of the housekeeper in Hud, and Roald Dahl, 47, British author of deftly ghoulish short stories: their third child, second daughter; in Oxford, England. Name: Ophelia...
Sophistry & Suicide. Today's lawyers, for all their own quibbling, might boggle at some of Shakespeare's, such as the hairsplitting debate of Ophelia's gravediggers over whether she deserves a Christian burial. "If I drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly." But Shakespeare's audience instantly got the message: the sophistry is a satire on a real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury...