Sir,-Henry V.? A magnificent production of a comparatively dud play. When the poet was not (like his incomparable Falstaff) "babbling of green fields" the scene- of action simply drifted backwards and forwards over the somewhat tedious (though lavish) spectacle of a mediaeval war of aggression. Sometimes, of course, the sheer energy of thought and phrase broke through this trivial round of events to "ascend the brightest heaven of invention" but on the whole it is to
be regretted that Laurence Olivier expended, so much time, thought, and imagination upon one of Shakespeare’s comparatively dnferior plays.
J.O.
M.
(Karori
(This correspondence is now closed, though Professor Sinclaire, who opened up *the subject, may if he wishes, exercise his fight of reply.-Ed. ) tae
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 5
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