Word: troilus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three times a year, another phase of HDC's work is their "reading plays" performed frequently on an informal basis. During the past term G.B. Shaw's "In Good King Charles Golden Days" received its American premiere here as part of this program, as well as an adaptation of "Troilus and Cressida" and a student play, "The Devil's Art," by Allen Friedman...
...Careful is a witty, very ugly, very sorrowful book. If it had eloquence, and a despair of soul as well as of mind, it would rank not far below Troilus and Cressida and Journey to the End of the Night among the world's great nihilistic poems. Lacking these, it is a forceful, rather tortured tract, without the complete clarity of design that might make it an instructive parable...
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...
...invent any. His own 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...