Troilus and Cressida
2nd Edition
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editor: Anthony B. Dawson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- Introduction by: Gretchen Minton, Montana State University
- Date Published: August 2017
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107571426
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Troilus and Cressida, a play that has long been considered difficult but is now popular both on the stage and in criticism, features an expanded and updated introduction and reading list. The first edition has been praised for its careful rethinking of the text, excellent annotation, lively attention to performance and extensive coverage of the play's major concerns. This updated edition retains these characteristics. In addition, Gretchen Minton and Anthony B. Dawson have provided a new account of the critical and theatrical treatment of Troilus and Cressida over the last fifteen years, showing how modern audiences have become attuned to the play's sardonic undercutting of both the medieval romance of the title characters and the Homeric tale of the Trojan War. Recent performance history is placed against a broader background of social change, including shifting attitudes towards war, political decision-making, gender politics, and fear of disease and contagion.
Read more- This second edition provides a new account of the play's critical and performance history since 2000
- Draws upon photographic archives, promptbooks and video tapes of recent productions
- Gretchen Minton joins Anthony B. Dawson in updating the volume
Reviews & endorsements
Review of previous edition: '… [an] excellent companion to this delinquent genius of a play.' Quarto
See more reviewsReview of previous edition: '… [a] fine new edition … Anthony B. Dawson's readable and reliable text, together with his excellent explanatory footnotes and his superb discussion of theatrical adaptations of the play, will make this edition a valuable resource for scholars as well as an attractive text for classroom use.' Shakespeare Quarterly
Review of previous edition: 'I commend this new edition particularly for the introductory sections.' Shakespeare at the Centre Magazine
Review of previous edition: '… excellent …' Around the Globe
Review of the series: 'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in London
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×Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: August 2017
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107571426
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 152 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 17 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations and conventions
Introduction: style and genre: heap of rubbish, salty comedy, or what?
The play in its time
Symmetrical structures
Interpreting the language
Cressida
Literary identity
Scepticism and speculation
The play in performance: the play in 2015 with Gretchen Minton
Staging the staging
Note on the text
The 1609 epistle to the reader
List of characters
The play
Textual analysis
Appendix: sources of the play
Reading list.
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