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Texts and pretexts (Part 1)
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When
students of a public schools in England in the early 1950s were asked to name
the author of Hamlet, many of the young scholars wrote ‘Laurence Olivier’. The teacher
was reputedly not amused but a theatre critic reporting this in a journal
wrote, “It is a reflection of the times; this indicates the triumph of the director
over the playwright”.