Word: cressida
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shakespeare's original theme is that love can also serve to redeem the fallen soldier as it humanizes him. The power of Antony's death seene, as well as Cleopatra's, is provided by the knowledge that command depends on devotion as well as self-esteem. In Troilus and Cressida, a centrifugal labor on love and honor, the rejection of the mundane world seemed a base deception; in Antony and Cleopatra it seems like a nobler refuge. In East and West, Shakespeare scized on effective dramatic terms for the workings of love and war. Cleopatra replaces the gods...
...policy, but they envision a world of gods. The tragedy is that reputation and love are irreconcilable in the world. To ask for honor is to ask for death. This is the hero's fate. To ask for love is to ask for life in another worid. Troilus and Cressida -a bitter, earlier, centrifugal labor-examined whether a man can act honorably in the name of love. Antony and Cleopatra explores how the soldier in love is liable to betray himself as a soldier and how the hero in love is at war with himself. The reconciliation of will...