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...production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is prickly in triumph, venomous in defeat, an uncompromising totalitarian. But Olivier also builds a credible, Nietzschean human being, a sarcastic soldier-aristocrat and sour-eyed supersnob of the type well known to the British. Wrote the London Times: "The acting of Sir Laurence Olivier has grown marvelously in power and beauty. He plays it just as well as it can be played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: First Knight | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

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