{"product_id":"troilus-and-cressida-a-critical-reader-paperback","title":"Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEfterpi Mitsi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLisa Hopkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAndrew Hiscock\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTroilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader\u003c\/i\u003e offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular attention paid on Troilus' \"Greekness\".\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The volume finishes with a helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies, designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric, metaphor and the practice of \"troping\"; and a series of tools designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its classical and critical frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEfterpi Mitsi\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710211035199,"sku":"9781350178700","price":86.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1951340b7ee609015ff13454bd64e076.webp?v=1765054132","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/troilus-and-cressida-a-critical-reader-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}