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008			010815s1998 000 0 eng d
020			_a0-17-443537-1
035			_a(AEA)662267A3911111D599CB00105A6AE819
040			_aAEA _cAEA
100			_aShakespeare, William _d1564-1616
245		0	_aTroilus and Cressida. / _cWilliam Shakespeare ; edited by David Bevington.
260			_aUnited Kingdom : _bT. Nelson and Sons, _cc1998.
300			_axxi, _b469 p. _c20 cm.
520			_aand Achilles ,the butcherer of Hector.Shaespeare's language has to deal with shattered identities ,with unstabe subjectivity of human willfulness,and with spiritual exhaustion and neurosis.
520			_aIt is a bitter play about an inclusive war and a failed love affair quite unlike anything Shakespeare had written before his romantic comedies and English history plays.Its bleak satire of political stalemate seems directed,in part at the unhappy story of the abortive rebellion of the Earl of Essex in 1601
520			_alike many of hte warriors in Troilus and Vressida ,Essex was a tarnished hero whose charisma fell victim to his own egomaniacal ambitions and to the mood of anxious helplessness that hovered over Queen Elizabeth's last years.The play is unususally elliptical in its language ,as though Shakespeare deliberately adopted a new ,contorted style to express the unfavorable paradoxes of the poltical and psychological no-man's -land he wanted to describe . A major topic the play is fame ,or rather notoriety ,for most of Shakespeare's major characters came to him in the story with full- blown legendary identities as antiheroes:Cressida ,the faithless woman
520			_aPandarus,the go-between
520			_aTroilus ,the rejected male
700			_aBevington, David, ed. _955741
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