Free shipping on orders over $89 - Limited time only - T&Cs apply

My Wish Lists Login / Join

Troilus and Cressida - Stephen Purcell

Troilus and Cressida

By: Stephen Purcell

eBook | 11 November 2025

At a Glance

Format
ePUB

eBook

RRP $185.21

$148.16

20%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $37.04 with

or

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

A history of Shakespeare's play in performance, from John Dryden's Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of the play in the twentieth century. What made this play so relevant to audiences who had lived through the horrors of two world wars and the rise of fascism? Why did it speak so directly to the 'angry young men' of the post-war generation and to the countercultural movements of the 1960s? This book investigates the many ways in which modern directors and actors have found their own world reflected in the play, from anti-war protests and the sexual revolution to feminism and postcolonialism. In doing so, it explores the play's own complexity and its refusal to give easy answers.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights Shakespeare Studies & Criticism Arts & Entertainment Acting & Theatre Studies Plays Shakespeare Plays

More in Shakespeare Studies & Criticism

A Thousand Times More Fair : What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice - Kenji Yoshino

eBOOK

A Thousand Times More Fair

What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice

eBook

$4.99

Shakespeare's Philosophy : Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays - Colin McGinn

eBOOK

Shakespeare's Philosophy

Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

eBook

RRP $12.99

$10.66

18%
OFF

How to Write a Sentence : And How to Read One - Stanley Fish

eBOOK

How to Write a Sentence

And How to Read One

eBook

RRP $26.99

$21.66

20%
OFF

One Matchless Time : A Life of William Faulkner - Jay Parini

eBOOK

One Matchless Time

A Life of William Faulkner

eBook

$9.99

Speak What We Feel : Not What We Ought to Say - Frederick Buechner

eBOOK

Speak What We Feel

Not What We Ought to Say

eBook

$9.99

Bardisms : Shakespeare for All Occasions - Barry Edelstein

eBOOK

Bardisms

Shakespeare for All Occasions

eBook

RRP $21.99

$17.59

20%
OFF

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates : 1973-1982 - Joyce Carol Oates

eBOOK

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates

1973-1982

eBook

$10.99

Prime Green : Remembering the Sixties - Robert Stone

eBOOK

Prime Green

Remembering the Sixties

eBook

$13.99

Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition - E. B. White

eBOOK

Letters of E. B. White, Revised Edition

eBook

$4.99

Essays of E. B. White : Perennial Classics - E. B. White

eBOOK

Essays of E. B. White

Perennial Classics

eBook

$5.99

What's in a name? : How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare - Susan Dwyer Amussen

eBOOK

What's in a name?

How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare

eBook

RRP $43.14

$34.99

19%
OFF

Shakespeare's Scholars : Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts - Sean Keilen

eBOOK

Shakespeare's Scholars

Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

eBook

RRP $47.30

$37.83

20%
OFF

The Antic Root : Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World - Christopher Pye

eBOOK

The Antic Root

Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World

eBook

RRP $49.49

$44.54

10%
OFF

Shakespeare's Margaret : The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen - Charles O'Malley

eBOOK

Shakespeare's Margaret

The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen

eBook

RRP $46.90

$37.61

20%
OFF

Shakespeare on Sex : How Will's Love Life Shaped the Plays and Liberated the World - Marc Berley

eBOOK

Shakespeare on Sex

How Will's Love Life Shaped the Plays and Liberated the World

eBook

$25.25

Pale Fire, Nabokov's Art and Shakespeare's Magic : Routledge Focus on Literature - Gerard de Vries

eBOOK

Pale Fire, Nabokov's Art and Shakespeare's Magic

Routledge Focus on Literature

eBook

$49.37

Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre : Plays and Poetry for all Seasons - Michael R D James

eBOOK

Shakespeares Philosophical Theatre

Plays and Poetry for all Seasons

eBook

$6.50

Tree-Becoming : Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage - Shannon Kelley

eBOOK

Tree-Becoming

Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage

eBook

RRP $37.39

$33.99

Shakespeare's Objects : Early Modern Material Culture - Catherine Richardson

eBOOK

Shakespeare's Objects

Early Modern Material Culture

eBook

RRP $35.99

$32.44

10%
OFF

The Kinetic Text : A Poetics of Reading in the Age of Print - Jessica C. Beckman

eBOOK

The Kinetic Text

A Poetics of Reading in the Age of Print

eBook

RRP $101.19

$80.95

20%
OFF

Reading the Literary Past : Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts - Andrew Mattison

eBOOK

Reading the Literary Past

Critical History and the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts

eBook

RRP $101.19

$80.95

20%
OFF

Horror on the Early Modern Stage : Nightmare on Thames Street - Hannah Korell

eBOOK

Horror on the Early Modern Stage

Nightmare on Thames Street

eBook

RRP $144.00

$129.68

10%
OFF

Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture - Aaron Kitch

eBOOK

Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture

eBook

RRP $162.00

$145.85

10%
OFF

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory : Shakespeare and Theory - Kelsey Ridge

eBOOK

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Shakespeare and Theory

eBook

RRP $144.00

$129.68

10%
OFF

This product is categorised by