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Troilus is, in short, Shakespeare's most cerebral, most philosophical play. It takes its place right alongside the "disquisitory" plays of Shaw; in fact, if Shaw had been an Elizabethan, he would have written this work...
Infantry of the Mind. The trouble with the metaphysics of chance is that it is too shallow for a true tragic destiny. Unlike the Greek and Elizabethan heroes, the Hemingway hero does not understand his fate. It's simply a dirty trick...
...Like It, he decided to lay aside boisterous elements (such as Dogberry) and work at the problem of the swift, witty female (like Beatrice). What resulted was Rosalind, who spends much of her time, however, disguised as a boy. (But one must recall that, in Elizabethan times, such an idea was more plausible, for the interdict against women on the stage meant that female roles were played by boys anyway.) Shakespeare also tossed in court Fool (Touchstone) and misfit (Jaques)--both only partially successful...
Moving from Greece to Elizabethan England, Steiner notes that Victor Hugo called Shakespeare "Aeschylus the second." It wasn't quite true. Shakespeare violated the classic unities of time, place and action and altered the tragedy of destiny to the tragedy of will. The underlying unity of Shakespearean tragedy, as Steiner sees it, is "the universal drama of the fall of man." This introduces Christian values without the Christian metaphysic, which is nontragic, since it contains the hope of heaven and redemptive grace. Critic Steiner fails to explore one pagan link between Greek and Shakespearean tragedy, the obsession with death...
BRATTLE: Shakespeare's and Laurence Olivier's truly magnificent color-film version of Henry V. One of the best of Hollywood's all-too-few forays into the literature of Elizabethan England. A visual spectacle and an aural delight. This is the REGULAR version; and the actor' heads remain in view, Evenings...