Word: yorick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brisk pace without mangling it. Olivier's film never evoked "the pale cast of thought." It made Hamlet an agile activist who, as one critic put it, was "too busy" to kill the king. Richardson has concentrated on closeups of heads. The most concrete image in Hamlet is Yorick's skull, the symbol of mortality. The abstract image is the human brain. The existential terrain of Hamlet is the mind, vast as the earth and narrow as the tomb. By concentrating on men's faces and skulls, Richardson has located the essential geography of Hamlet far more...