EPISODE · Jan 9, 2024 · 3H 55M
William Shakespeare presents Troilus and Cressida
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troilus and Cressida Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Mark Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 9, 2024 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years 'stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate'. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. Several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly 'modern'. Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/742274 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Troilus and Cressida Author: William Shakespeare Narrator: Mark Bowen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 9, 2024 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years 'stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate'. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. Several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly 'modern'. Among the most significant works William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, The Tempest, Venus and Adonis, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale and many more.
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