Word: cressida
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Displaying a fresh nutbrown beard, plump, exuberant Author Christopher Morley played Pandarus, a wily, two-timing businessman of Troy, in the Roslyn, L. I. production of his play, The Trojan Horse. All authors (notably Chaucer and Shakespeare) who wrote about Troilus and Cressida, explained Playwright Morley, wore beards...
...remarks are distinguished by unusual common sense. The common sense changes Hamlet from Weltschmerz in tights to a gallant and proficient Renaissance prince; proclaims that Shylock cannot be whitewashed but is a definitely anti-Semitic creation ; underestimates such dull-acting but extraordinary poems as Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus; insists the plays should be read aloud, staged with a minimum of scenery and business. There have been more brilliant and more monumental studies of Shakespeare. But for the general reader this is an almost ideally useful, informative companion volume to the plays, and guide to further reading...
...prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some day: Shakespeare's Troilus and, Cressida, Macbeth...
...local heroes, and accepted him in all the convention of courtly love. The stage is set for a blissful fade-out, when from the Greek lines comes the request from the girl's father that she be traded for some of the prisoners. At the mob's insistence, Cressida goes to the Greeks, swearing eternal fidelity to her lover Troilus...
...tragedy is swift. In twelve days the lusty Diomede, Grecian Lothario, has won her heart and soul. Only once before, in Helen, had woman proved so faithless, yet never was woman so, pathetic as Cressida. In the heat of her remorse for what she had done to Troilus she swears she will at least be faithful to her new lover...