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CLEVELAND, Ohio - At the start of Laurence Olivier's 1948 British film adaptation of "Hamlet," the director and star offers a helpful voiceover: "This," Olivier intones, "is the tragedy of a man who ...
As a youth, the writer Floyd Skloot most admired Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. “It showed a mind engaged with the fundamental question of existence,” he says in this special issue, which ...
The question used to be: Can Shakespeare’s plays be made into successful movies? With his film production of Henry V (TIME, April 8, 1946), Sir Laurence Olivier settled that question once & for all.