Word: troilus
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...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...
...admits she 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...
That lik a thing Inmortal seemed she, fell in love with Troilus, one of the 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...
...answer is no more known today than in the Fourteenth Century. But the Vagabond is willing to listen to reason, and this morning he will go to Emerson A at 9.00 o'clock to hear Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, read from and talk about the Troilus and Criscyde...