Word: poloniuses
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...tutor assigned "Hamlet" as a week's reading. When his tutee reported, the subject of Hamlet's madness came up for discussion. "There are three characters in the play who have theories about Hamlet's madness"' said the tutor, "The King Claudius, Polonius, and the Queen...
...antithesis of Actor Gielgud, Actor Howard robs Hamlet of every shred of dignity and nobility: by being peevish with Polonius' garrulity instead of simply bored; by being quizzical when he means to be sardonic; by indicating neither method in his madness nor madness in his methods; by delivering most of his soliloquies while loping about the stage and peering under the furniture; by failing at any point to convince the audience it is watching anything more than Leslie Howard walking through a part. Unanimously, metropolitan critics found star and production remarkably unexciting, agreed with the Post's scholarly...
...supporting cast is adequate though not entirely distinguished. John Barclay as the Ghost is excellent in every respect, Aubrey Mather extracts a little too much comedy from the role of Polonius, and the King is a trifle too much the conventional villian. The First grave digger is especially worthy of mention, as indeed the entire graveyard scene is. The play portrayed by the actors before the Court, on the other hand is almost pure Watts, with very little Shakespeare included...
...first wife, Althea and the producer she deserted when she met Richard. By the time Merrily We Roll Along reaches Act III, Scene 3, Richard Niles is a blithe young valedictorian proudly spouting to his college classmates on the subject of ideals. "I give you the words of Polonius," he squeaks, " 'To thine own self be true...
...actor with Edwin Booth. "I was playing Polonius that night," he recalls. "You play Polonius with five cards and red and white chips...