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Hamlet in the Thirties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Frances Teague
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Wolcott Gibbs once told the New Yorker's readers: Now, in 1938, only the invincibly naive imagine they go to a production of “Hamlet” for the purpose of watching a bunch of actors in a play. The others understand that they are about to be confronted with a ringing challenge to their culture. The man who has not seen Barrymore, Massey, Hampden, Lieber [sic], Gielgud, Howard, Evans, Tinker, and Chance (to round up enough for a little ball game) and is not prepared to discuss their respective performances might better go and live in Rockport, Indiana, though it is by no means certain that he would be safe even there. (22 Oct. 1938, p. 34)

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Theatre Survey , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , May 1985 , pp. 63 - 79
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1985

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