Word: ophelia
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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...
...seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine her at bridge than in the "rank sweat of an enseamed bed." The saddest thing about Linda Marsh's Ophelia is how far beyond her grasp the part...
...pauses to discuss the shortness of life; this, too, is the musing, reflective Hamlet who recites the "To be or not to be" soliloquy almost without a change of tone, almost without a gesture. Burton's Hamlet begins his speech in a reverie, and remains in it until Ophelia interrupts...