Troilus and Cressida Resources
Websites
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We've got the 411 on everybody's favorite Elizabethan playwright. Check it out.
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Check out Marjorie Garber's down to earth talk about this play (plus many others).
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BBC's review of the Maori production of Troilus and Cressida, part of the Globe to Globe Festival.
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Cool NPR podcast about the 2005 Globe Theater production that staged Troilus and Cressida in the "original pronunciation." So what does "real" Elizabethan English sound like? Think Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Nifty article from the Folger Shakespeare Library about how Shakespeare turns Homer and Chaucer's noble characters into a bunch of creeps.
Movie or TV Productions
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You better hope this is the flick your teacher makes you watch in class because it's the best one out there: Troilus and Cressida (1981), directed by Jonathan Miller for the BBC.
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Directed by Michael Croft for the BBC.
Historical Documents
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Check out a facsimile of the First Folio edition of Troilus and Cressida, from 1623.
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Check out this old playbill from a 1697 Production of Troilus and Cressida.
Video
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In this film version, Achilles chills while his Myrmidon hooligans hack down Hector. Cold-blooded, don't you think?
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This clip features a "haka" (a Maori warrior dance) in a Maori version of Troilus and Cressida. This is so awesome, guys!
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A modern take on Act 3, scene 2 sets Troilus and Cressida in...a small cafe. Of course!
Audio
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What are you waiting for? Shakespeare is meant to be heard.
Images
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Cressida and Helen admire the goods in Alexandre Bida's 1890 watercolor.
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Here's a touching 1795 print of Act 5, scene 3, where Hector's family begs him to stay home.