Troilus and Cressida
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Sep 26, 2026
Joshua KosmanPANELIST
The geographical name is Chernobyl.
Joshua KosmanPANELIST
And the clowns we have left are Touchstone from As You Like It and Thursites from the lesser known Troilus and Cressida.
Dana RodriguezHOST
All right.
Dana RodriguezHOST
As much as I like the answer, Jefferson's, that's not it.
ClintHOST
Yeah, they're just getting...
RaeHOST
Um, I mean, it's even in Troilus and Cressida, which is Shakespeare's version of the, the Trojan w- war.
RaeHOST
The chara- the Achilles character, like refuses to get... to join the battle until his companion-
ClintHOST
[laughs]
Justin AndersonHOST
I wanted...
Justin AndersonHOST
I think it was Troilus and Cressida that we went to see.
Justin AndersonHOST
I don't remember.
Justin AndersonHOST
It was, again, 15 years ago.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
I don't think reading it on a page is at all the same experience.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
But it's also interesting to me that even though I just called it Catharsis the play, it does feel like it's got a little bit, just a touch of that Troilus and Cressida vibe.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
nihilism, post-modernism to it, where you get to the end and you don't feel satisfied by the revenge story, or at least I don't.
Charlotte AhlinHOST
It's not like you get to the end of, you know, what's a good revenge story? You get to the end of Kill Bill, which I have not seen.
Paul MenzerGUEST
But I think the closure of the playhouses had a big effect on Shakespeare's writing.
Paul MenzerGUEST
I also do think kind of something about the satirical quality of the time we see in some plays like Troilus and Cressida, potentially Timon of Athens, these plays that do have characters who are a bit more misanthropic than we see in the earlier years of his writings.
Barbara BogaevHOST
They're tough.
Barbara BogaevHOST
You call them tough and sinewy plays.
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
The cry went once on thee, and still it might, And yet it may again, if thou wouldst not Entomb thyself alive, and case thy reputation and thy tent, Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions amongst the gods themselves, And drave great Mars to faction.
speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
End of Ulysses' Speech on Time From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare This recording is in the public domain.
speaker_17VOICE_ACTOR
O REASON NOT THE NEED Our basest beggars are in the poorest things superfluous.
speaker_17VOICE_ACTOR
Allow not nature more than nature needs.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
And his reflections are very imitative of Hamlet's soliloquies.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
And his falling in love, I think, doesn't just recall Hamlet, it also recalls both Romeo and Juliet and Troilus and Cressida.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
If you look closely at the language where he realises that something wonderful is about to happen to him, he thinks he's going to be able to write a good novel.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
In fact, it is that, but that comes after the falling in love.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
But that is very similar to Romeo feeling that he's on the verge of something great.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
And Troilus and Cressida, Troilus thinking he's on the verge of something great.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
But both Romeo and Troilus are worried about it, they feel anxiety because they think, is this going to be so life-changing that it means my death? And of course it does.
Elizabeth WhittomeGUEST
And it's the same with Bradley
speaker_4ADVERTISER
Ba-da-ba-ba-ba.
Thomas PeterVOICE_ACTOR
Dramatis Personae of the History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare.
Thomas PeterVOICE_ACTOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Thomas PeterVOICE_ACTOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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Craig FranklinVOICE_ACTOR
Two curs shall tame each other.
Craig FranklinVOICE_ACTOR
Pride alone must tar the mastiffs on, as twere their bone.
Thomas PeterVOICE_ACTOR
Act II of The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare.
Thomas PeterVOICE_ACTOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
Simon CallowGUEST
It was a wonderful place to be.
Simon CallowGUEST
And then the RSC in the time of Judi Dench and, and, and, and, uh, you know, all those astonishing productions like the Twelfth Night and, uh, uh, Troilus and Cressida, Barton's masterpiece, and, and so on and so on and so on.
Simon CallowGUEST
So, but all the while I was planning to go to drama school, and I, I, I hopped off one afternoon and, uh, went and auditioned for this place called the Drama Centre, which I, I read the prospectus of all the drama schools, and they all looked like holiday camps except for the Drama Centre, which looked like a concentration camp.
Gyles BrandrethHOST
[laughs]
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
And you can see, and scholars have, have pointed this out, you can see Homeric elements starting to enter Shakespeare's plays.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
There's no kind of smoking gun because, of course, we don't know a huge amount of what Shakespeare was reading at any given moment, but you can see elements of the Iliad entering his plays like Troilus and Cressida.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
And when you get to a play like The Tempest, which feels so Odyssean in many ways, the, the idea of these characters on a deserted island in the Mediterranean, um, you've got Prospero, who's an exile.
Jonti ClaypoleGUEST
He's trying to get home.
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