Word: cressida
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...crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue that the most durable building...
...other half hint at romance, at tension, at dirty snow and slums. They are more honest than the writing anyway, if a little too hesitantly arty; I like especially the shots of registration and of the river. And much as one winces at the appearance of Troilus and Cressida (Fall, 1960) and the 1958 Glee Club, and wishes that the Senate campaign were less advertised, the pictures are interesting. I hope they will help to calm the nerves of those who are jabbing themselves for buying this enormously expensive volume of carelessly compiled fatuities...
...unionists, Gaitskell surrounded himself with witty, intellectual advisers. Budgeted by his tiny, vivacious wife Dora, he lived modestly within his $8,400 salary in a twelve-room house in Hampstead; unpretentiously, he and Dora entertained Tory peers, businessmen and visiting U.S. intellectuals. Inspired by his daughters, Julia, 23, and Cressida, 20, Gaitskell loved to dance and was a fan of Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald...
Noted as a Shakespearean scholar, Seltzer has acted extensively himself, including a portrayal of Ulysses in Treilius and Cressida, the first play ever to be produced at the Loeb...
...critics' criticism of King Lear, which appears here. Also, one misses an essay by Professor Brower in addition to his introduction (which, by the way, must deserve some sort of prize for the number of times it has been anthologized); some of Brower's memorable remarks on Troilus and Cressida might, for example, have replaced the rather wretched essay on Henry VIII. (And of the two little read plays, there can be no doubt that the Troilus is the more worth considering...