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- British playwright Charles Bennett once remarked that Olivier delivered lines in Shakespeare as if “he were actually thinking them.”
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Nov 3, 2018 · Whether we hear Laurence Olivier reciting them, or erroneously picture some other great Shakespearean actor pronouncing these words while holding a skull (which actually belongs in the later gravedigger scene), ‘To be or not to be’ is one of the most famous six-line phrases from all of English literature.
Jul 11, 2014 · British playwright Charles Bennett once remarked that Olivier delivered lines in Shakespeare as if “he were actually thinking them.” Appropriately, Olivier served as lead actor and director for...
Apr 3, 2024 · He could speak Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them. Charles Bennett, as quoted in "Laurence Olivier; Larry and the Bard" by Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 501 Actors (2007), p. 158 [Asked "So what was the legendary actor really like in the flesh?"] He was so many different things.
Oct 27, 2014 · The lines are fresh in our minds because the rearranged narrative has placed them immediately before our last looks at Ophelia. Hamlet looks at the sea before beginning his fourth soliloquy.
Feb 25, 1992 · From winter, 1936, to spring, 1938, he learned more than 12,000 lines of Shakespeare, while deciding to leave his wife and marry Vivien Leigh.
Laurence Olivier. Actor: Sleuth. Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927.
Sep 16, 2019 · Olivier’s portrayal of destabilizing melancholy was only deepened, not leavened, by the onset of an “antic disposition,” and he finds only the bleakest of comedy in Shakespeare’s text. It’s certain that Olivier was a precocious Shakespearean talent.
