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Sir Larry: The Life of Laurence Olivier, by Thomas Kiernan (Times Books, 302 pp., $16.95)

Every age misconstrues Shakespeare in its own way. We would no longer put up with a Nahum Tate or a Colley Cibber rewriting King Lear or Richard III, but we have had an assortment of Freudian, existentialist, and otherwise gimmicky interpretations and productions.

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Sir Larry: The Life of Laurence Olivier, by Thomas Kiernan (Times Books, 302 pp., $16.95)

Every age misconstrues Shakespeare in its own way. We would no longer put up with a Nahum Tate or a Colley Cibber rewriting King Lear or Richard III, but we have had an assortment of Freudian, existentialist, and otherwise gimmicky interpretations and productions.