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Elizabeth Taylor smashed Richard Burton's 'Shakespearean ambitions' amid pair's scandalous romance and two explosive marriages - new book claims
Their tempestuous relationship became the stuff of Hollywood legend , with the pair getting married and divorced twice in a blizzard of alcohol-fueled passion between the 1960s and 1970s.
He starred in such Shakespeare plays as Coriolanus, The Tempest, King John, and Henry V, among others, and even did a run in Othello where he switched on separate nights between the title role and Iago. When Fisher found out that Taylor was being unfaithful to him, he flew into such a rage that he pointed a gun at her as she lay in bed, according to a bestselling book called Furious Love about the Burton-Taylor romance. Burton and Taylor play a miserable married couple who get progressively drunker over the course of a cocktail party at their house and viciously air out all their grievances with each other, in full view of their horrified guests.
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