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Subjects

Classics
Cressida (Fictitious character)
Cressida (Fictitious character) -- Drama
Drama
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
European
Fiction
Historical drama
Literary Criticism
Performing Arts
Princes
Princes -- Turkey -- Troy (Extinct city) -- Drama
Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stage history
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Troilus and Cressida
Stage history
Theater
Tragicomedies
Tragicomedy
Troilus (Legendary character)
Troilus (Legendary character) -- Drama
Trojan War
Trojan War -- Drama
Troy (Extinct city) -- Drama
Women
Women -- Turkey -- Troy (Extinct city) -- Drama

From the Book - Modern Library pbk. ed.

Introduction. Tragical-Comical-Historical? ; "What's aught but as 'tis valued?" ; The critics debate

About the text

Key facts

Troilus and Cressida

Textual notes

Quarto passages that do not appear in the folio

Scene-by-scene analysis

Troilus and Cressida in performance: The RSC and beyond. Four centuries of Troilus and Cressida: an overview ; At the RSC ; The director's cut: interviews with Michael Boyd and Trevor Nunn

Shakespeare's career in the theater. Beginnings ; Playhouses ; The ensemble at work ; The king's man

Shakespeare's works: a chronology

The history behind the tragedies: a chronology

From the Book

Editor's preface

Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida

Reading Shakespeare's language: Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare's life

Shakespeare's theater

The publication of Shakespeare's plays

An introduction to this text

Troilus and Cressida - text of the play with commentary

Longer notes

Textual notes

Appendix on the characters in the play

Troilus and Cressida: a modern perspective by Jonathan Gil Harris

From the Book

Introduction

'A new play, never staled with the stage': genre and the question of original performance

'An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation': historical context in the last years of Elizabeth's reign

'Wars and lechery': demystification of the heroes of ancient Greece

'Tis but the chance of war'" sceptical deflation of Trojan honour and chivalry

'The gods have heard me swear': tragic irony and the death of Hector

'As true as Troilus': male obsessions about honour and sexuality

'As false as Cressid': women as objects of desire

'Call them all panders': voyeurism and male bonding

'What's aught but as 'tis valued?': commercial and subjective valuation of identity and worth

'Divides more wider than the sky and earth': the fragmentation of the divided self

'Stuff to make paradoxes': performance history of Troilus and Cressida

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Longer notes

'Instructed by the antiquary times': Shakespeare's sources

'Words, words, mere words': The text of Troilus and Cressida.

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