Word: cresida
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...music commissioned for this show and had gathered a special orchestra under Tom Phillips to conduct it, Safer was really worried about how his system would carry it out to the audience. One critic had commented adversely on the sound system for "Troilus and Cresida," the Workshop's last play. But the morning that the reviews came out for "The Tempest," Safer was beaming. Nobody mentioned the sound system...
...fourth American production of William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cresida" opens an 11-night, Harvard Theater Workshop run in Brattle Hall tonight...
...trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were famed, not the Greeks as in Homer, and the number of persons who were killed was estimated at 676,000 Trojans, and 886,000 Greeks. Shakespeare is said to have obtained the groundwork of his Troilus and Cresida from Dares' poem. In the fourteenth century the study of Homer was awakened by the students of the Byantine empire who flocked to Rome and Florence, and in 1488, the first edition of the original Greek appeared. In 1610 an English edition of Homer was published by George Chapman...
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