Olivier, Freud, and Hamlet
During his undergraduate years at Harvard, JOHN ASHWORTH studied Shakespeare under Professor Kittred go, and in a sophomore’s enthusiasm memorized all of Hamlet. If is experiences during the tear as a political analyst for OWI and his academic interests at Columbia University, where today he is teaching English composition, have combined to make Mr. Ashworth highly critical of Sir Laurence Olivier’s treatment of Shakespeare’s text. Hamlet cut and dried and then reheated with a sprinkling of Freud is not his idea of Shakespeare.