Word: troilus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...averting the madness of war. Actually, it is merely a delaying action against ultimate defeat. For Giraudoux is bent on proving that there is a vile instinct in man that wills to kill. The play ends sadly and cynically with war breaking out and Helen kissing a new lover, Troilus...
...Troilus and Cressida, the grand opening production of the Loeb Drama Center, was universally acknowledged to be a bomb. Brooks Atkinson, who came up to review the play for the Crimson, said so unreservedly. Undergraduates said so in tones ranging from surface disappointment to unconcealed pleasure. Troilus's importance was more than ceremonial, however. It weakened the case for Loeb professionalism, since it was hardly a success. It also weakened the status of its director, Stephen Aaron, whose tenure as assistant director of the Loeb was to be extraordinarily brief...
...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City: Up in Central Park, Robert Burr plays the title role in Coriolanus with an able assist from James Earl Jones who also works out in Troilus and Cressida.* A mobile company, complete with dressing rooms, stage, and a 1,600-seat theater stowed into trucks, tours New York's five boroughs performing The Taming of the Shrew and Henry V in English and Romeo and Juliet en Espanol...
...that the crown that "in me was purchas'd, falls upon thee in a more fairer sort" (Shakespeare's way of saying that the king usurped the crown). In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the devil holds Sir John Falstaff in "fee-simple" (complete ownership). In Troilus and Cressida, even Greeks and Trojans talk in terms of "fee-form" (tenure without limit). "Lease" is used to express transience: life is a "lease of nature" (Macbeth); "summer's lease hath all too short a date" (Sonnet 18). As for "tenant," Hamlet's gravediggers argue that the most...
...stories; the other half hint at romance, at tension, at dirty snow and slums. They are more honest than the writing anyway, if a little too hesitantly arty; I like especially the shots of registration and of the river. And much as one winces at the appearance of Troilus and Cressida (Fall, 1960) and the 1958 Glee Club, and wishes that the Senate campaign were less advertised, the pictures are interesting. I hope they will help to calm the nerves of those who are jabbing themselves for buying this enormously expensive volume of carelessly compiled fatuities...