fathers help, Richard Burton had found  himself unable to convincingly play a Romantic Hamlet under  Gielguds direction. Ironically, as the long run of his Broadway  Hamlet went on, a bored Burton would vary his Hamlet night by night  according to how he felt. According to his own memoirs, Richard  Burton might one night present the prince as a homosexual, while  another night add German words to the text in order to see if anyone  noticed. Some theatrical mavens who had returned to the theater to  see the fiery Hamlet of the opening days of the production  criticized Burton for his lack of discipline.