Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader

ISBN-13: 9781350178700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str.

Efterpi Mitsi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athen;Dr Andrew Hiscock;Professor Lisa Hopkins

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Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s stage performance from Dryden’s rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte’s controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play’s iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular attention paid on Troilus’ “Greekness”. The volume finishes with a helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies, designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric, metaphor and the practice of “troping”; and a series of tools designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its classical and critical frameworks.

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Series Introduction List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Timeline Introduction (Efterpi Mitsi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 1. The Critical Backstory (Kinga Földváry, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary) 2. Performance History (Francesca Rayner, Universidade do Minho, Portugal) 3. The State of the Art (Johann Gregory, Cardiff University, UK) 4. New Directions: The Decay of Exemplarity in Troilus and Cressida (Rob Maslen, University of Glasgow, UK) 5. New Directions: ‘What art thou, Greek?’ – Greeks and Greece in Troilus and Cressida (Miklós Péti, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary) 6.New Directions: ‘[B]its and greasy relics’: the Politics of Relics in Troilus and Cressida (Vassiliki Markidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 7. New Directions: Scenes of Repossession: Greek Translations and Performances of Troilus and Cressida (Paschalis Nikolaou, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece) 8. 'Degrees in schools': Learning and Teaching Resources (Richard Stacey, University of Glasgow, UK) Notes Select Bibliography Index