The Soviet version of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” has been taken off in Moscow and in future the texts of Shakespeare's plays will be followed faithfully—with no distortion. In the Moscow version Hamlet was a matter-of-fact young man who pretended to be mad in order to further his aims. Ophelia was represented as falling into the river and drowning when drunk after a party.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 3
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62Untitled Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 3
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