Arts and Manners

A Horse for a Kingdom

Sir Laurence Olivier’s filmed Richard III is the most handsomely mounted documentary I have seen since the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. If, on the whole, I prefer that TV production of several years ago to Sir Laurence’s laudable effort to sell Shakespeare to the masses, I am admittedly applying a special theory of esthetics: and it had better be explained before I return to the film.