Troilus and Cressida
Автор:
William ShakespeareЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
27
Description
Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays,” characterized by its duality of tone as it jumps from bawdy comedic to dark tragedy. The plot was sourced from two epic poems: Homer’s Iliad is the source of the play’s Greek mythological references, the Trojan War, and the war’s key figures, while Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is the source of Troilus’s love affair with a Trojan woman.
At the beginning of Troilus and Cressida, seven years have passed since the start of the...
