Troilus & Cressida Act II - by William Shakespeare

2022-12-09

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Troilus & Cressida - by William Shakespeare - Act 2(Scenes 3.3 to 5.11 in the standard text + Epilogue - Sonnet 60)Ostensibly, the action takes place at Ilium, the Trojan citadel, and in the Greek military encampment beyond the city walls during the Trojan war (c1300 BCE), a war about which few hard facts are positively known, but of which stories survive in myth and legend.However, Shakespeare seems to have imagined the events as part of a conflict of his own day, and in this production they may be...

Troilus & Cressida - by William Shakespeare - Act 2(Scenes 3.3 to 5.11 in the standard text + Epilogue - Sonnet 60)

Ostensibly, the action takes place at Ilium, the Trojan citadel, and in the Greek military encampment beyond the city walls during the Trojan war (c1300 BCE), a war about which few hard facts are positively known, but of which stories survive in myth and legend.

However, Shakespeare seems to have imagined the events as part of a conflict of his own day, and in this production they may be imagined as taking place in a theatre of war at almost any time since then, especially between the start of the First World War in 1914 CE and the present day.

Act 2 includes our Director's adaption of Shakespeare's Scenes 3.3 to 5.11 in the standard text and an Epilogue using Sonnet 60.

For further details including a Plot Summary and a downloadable Programme, please visit our website www.worldstage21.uk

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