There is never any doubt that his 'madness' is feigned. [The actor] beautifully captures sudden moments of soulsick sadness but there is a wonderful warmth and humour here, as well as shafts of cruelty, sardonic wit and emotional violence.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph
- Date
- 1992
- Copyright
- ©
... this actor plays the role as an immature young undergraduate, powerless at what his elders are doing with his world ... with his red Wittenberg varsity scarf wound tightly round his neck. We are offered Hamlet as a coward...
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Julian Holland, The Daily Mail
- Date
- 1965
- Copyright
- ©
A mad, wild Hamlet - he stabs Polonius not once but 20 frenzied times... He begins as a little-boy-lost, a lank-haired student, continues as a Rasputin-style monk, and ends with great nobility...
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Colin Frame, The Evening News
- Date
- 1970
- Copyright
- ©
...a Hamlet always poised agonisingly this side of breakdown, held barely in check until the final act, when the inevitability of the outcome brings a kind of calm. His frail, almost emaciated body twitches with the taut stringing of his nerves.
- Act and Scene
- Credit
- Helene Ward, The Leamington Spa Courier
- Date
- 1984
- Copyright
- ©
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