Troilus and Cressida ( born Troilus and Cressida ) - Shakespeare's play, following the first posthumous publishers attributed to the tragedies . described her as one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", along with " Measure for Measure " and " End - Crown ".
Content
Genre identity
“Troilus and Cressida” is not a typical tragedy, since the main characters (Troilus and Cressida) do not die, but the play ends with “tragic” events: the murder of the hero Hector and the collapse of love of the title characters. Contains, along with tragic, ironic and comic motifs. In his lifetime publication is not related to the tragedies, but to historical chronicles .
Joyce Carol Oates writes about this: “This is a tragedy of a special sort -“ tragedy “, which is based on the impossibility of convenient tragedy.” [1]
Source
The plot of Troilus and Cressida adjoins the cycle of stories about the Trojan War , but is absent in ancient mythology, appearing only in medieval literature. The poem of the same name belongs to Jeffrey Chaucer . It served as one of the main sources for Shakespeare, along with other Trojan medieval literature, as well as Homer's renaissance narratives. The plot was popular in Elizabethan drama, Thomas Haywood and Thomas Dekker also wrote plays for him.
Dating Problem
Usually dates back to around 1602. Both separate editions of quarto date back to 1609, and they contradict each other. One of them says that the tragedy was played in the Globus Theater, and in the other that the reader is offered a new play that has never been performed. It is known, moreover, that already in 1603 it was planned to publish "Troilus and Cressida" (indicating that the play was already staged), but this edition did not take place at that time for unknown reasons.
A number of Shakespearers are trying to reconcile this evidence, suggesting that Troil was delivered around 1602, but by the time of publication in 1609 it had been radically revised.
Screenshots
- 1954 - Troilus and Cressida / Troilus and Cressida UK (episode of the television series ), directed by
- 1964 - Troilus and Cressida / Troilus und Cressida, West Germany (TV), director
In Astronomy
The asteroid (548) of Cressida , discovered in 1904, and the satellite of the planet Uranus Cressida , opened in 1986, is named after the heroine of Shakespeare’s play.
Notes
- ↑ Oates, Joyce Carol (1966/1967). The Tragedy of Existence: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. Originally published as two essays in the Philological Quarterly , Spring 1967, and Shakespeare Quarterly , Spring 1966.
Links
- Full text: William Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida in the lane. T. Gnedich in the library of Maxim Moshkov
- Troilus and Cressida in Russian translations in the Russian Shakespeare Information and Research Database