Me and Bill
ERNARD MILES will be remembered by many as the Yorkshire petty officer in In Which We Serve. He has also played Shakespeare’s Iago and has a notable record in Shakespearean and experimental drama. In view of all this it was entertaining to hear from 3YL his "The Low-Down on Hamlet," written as well as spoken by himself: a Cockney summary — how ready his change of accents-of the Dane’s misadventures, making a blasphemous and occasionally oytrageous burlesque of the greatest of melodramas. "Then there was Rose an’ Crantz an’ Guild an’ Stern -two blokes, yer know." .... "So now, when it’s all too late, in comes Fortinnbras the King of Norway-’e’s back from the Pole-and ’e looks at them all laying dead, and ‘Blimey,’ ’e says, ‘’as things been getting out of ’and again?’" It is not altogether a new idea-the Sentimental Bloke did the same for Romeo and Juliet most unsentimentally many years ago-but it was a good essay in what is, after all, a salutary shock for Swan-worshippers,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 15
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