“I don’t really like Shakespeare on the screen at all–the shot is too big for the cannon. The later plays, like Lear, are too big even for the theatre.”
Laurence Olivier, interview, London Observer (1937)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
“I don’t really like Shakespeare on the screen at all–the shot is too big for the cannon. The later plays, like Lear, are too big even for the theatre.”
Laurence Olivier, interview, London Observer (1937)
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