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Speeches, festivities, and a special performance of Troilus and Cressida will mark the open-tonight of the Loeb Drama Center...
...made any or shape and placed anywhere in the room. Both primental and main theatres have special electronic control systems designed by Izenour. tonight's invitational the formally-clad audience of of the theatre and alumni will the Center during a President's The Center public opening of Troilus Cressida will be tomorrow evening the production will run through...
Aaron said damage to the stage was minor. The red stage curtain, badly burned by the fire, was not to be used for the open stage production of Troilus and Cressida...
...dark vision of the great tragedies. The second was Shakespeare's-embittered love affair with the unknown "dark lady of the sonnets." Biographers have found traces of this siren's raven hair, pitch-black eyes, jigging walk, panting breath and wanton ways in the characters of Ophelia, Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view of man's fate, and a nausea...
This play was designated a "comedy" in the Folio. Modern scholarship has tried to improve the situation by setting up a sub-category of "dark comedies" for All's Well, Troilus and Cressida, and Measure for Measure. But let's face it: All's Well simply is not a comedy, dark or otherwise--unless one wants to render the term meaningless by applying it to anything with a happy or, as in this case, pseudo-happy ending. (Actually, this ending is utterly absurd, unbelievable, perfunctory, and, for a man of Shakespeare's stature, inexcusable--the sort of thing one finds...