A 1944–45 season at the Haymarket for Beaumont included a Hamlet that many considered his finest. Agate wrote, "Mr Gielgud is now completely and authoritatively master of this tremendous part... I hold that this is, and is likely to remain, the best Hamlet of our time." Also in the season were "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "The Duchess of Malfi" and the first major revival of "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1945). These productions attracted much praise, but at this point in his career Gielgud was somewhat overshadowed by his old colleagues. Olivier was celebrated for his recent film of "Henry V", and with Richardson (and John Burrell in Gielgud's stead) was making the Old Vic "the most famous theatre in the Anglo-Saxon world" according to the critic Harold Hobson.