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Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...
...highly recommend it. It is one of his best and most realistic comedies, but there are some interesting tragic elements. Do you have any summer reading selections...
...denying the engaging quality of Bellow's reflections on the power and mystery of friendship" wrote Ron Charles in his Christian Science Monitor review of Ravelstien. As audience members found out on yesterday evening, the novel begins in the early 1990s and documents Abe Ravelstein' s ostentatious lifestyle and tragic death from AIDS...
...Saigon) in October 1994, in search of promising new business ventures that might result from the Clinton Administration's impending normalization of relations with Vietnam. While driving down Le Duan Boulevard one afternoon, Hank Meijer asked his driver to stop at the former U.S. embassy, atop which the tragic last moments of America's involvement in Vietnam had been played out. Abandoned since and allowed to run down into a weed-choked eyesore where only chickens wandered among the shards of broken glass, the padlocked building was slated for the wrecking ball...
Suffice it to say, I was heartbroken. I had cost my team the win and had made a mistake when it counted most. Reflecting back upon my taste of infamy, I realized that screwing up in the glare of the spotlight is a common and, at times, tragic aspect of sports...