Word: polonius
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...Arthurian saga. While no Malory or even a T. H. White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences of Olivier's Henry...
William Larsen's Nestor is a tiresome Polonius gone even more senile. And Thayer David gives a masterly portrait of Ajax as a bloated, redfaced, blusterer who stammers over his plosives--all brawn and no brain...
...Self-Destruction. In Hamlet, worldly-wise Polonius gets everything wrong but is never at a loss for plausible hypotheses or cagey tactics. Lewis Eliot is only half wrong in these novels, but that half blights his personal life. His wife and his best friend take parallel roads to self-destruction...
...rift between the "two cultures," scientific and humanist, that have recently catapulted Snow into the role of a space-age sage. But the hero and narrator is, as always, Lewis Eliot-a wily courtier of success, in law, college, and government administration, and a kind of modern Polonius...
Margaret Courtenay as Gertrude stirs up a small storm with Mr. Neville in the Closet Scene, but everybody else is calmly, gracefully in the vein. Oliver Neville (Claudius), Joseph O'Connor (Polonius), John Humphry (Laertes), and David Dodimead (Horatio) play the most important parts, and all are guaranteed free from any active ingredients...