Word: cressida
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...that could be Mammoth Cave swallowing the Parthenon of Nashville, the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn, last week opened a production of Troilus and Cressida. But what ho? There, on a camp stool, sat mighty Agamemnon, stroking his beard, smoking a ten-inch cigar, wearing the uniform of a Union general and looking for all the world like an actor dressed up to play Ulysses S. Grant. There too was doddering old Nestor, also wearing the blue, with binoculars around his neck. Menelaus wore pince-nez, and they all used the spittoon and the likker jug. The Trojan...
Stratford, Conn., American Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It, Macbeth, and Troilus and Cressida...
...Denmark. It has became global, and may well become universal. Knowledge is infinite; wisdom is finite. And for the first time in history, man's knowledge has now surpassed his wisdom to use it. The outlook is bleak; and never before has man so needed Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida...
...such threads as there are end inconclusively. The work lacks the focal personage of two it badly needs. All these soldiers are gathered, but Priam is no Lee and Agamemnon is no Grant, not to mention an Alexander of a MacArthur. Nor is the work mainly about Troilus and Cressida any more than Julius Caesar is mainly about Caesar...
Within the spectrum of comedy, Troilus offers much latitude. From this production there emerges a satirical approach, which, though not quite consistently applied, is eminently workable. Carrie Nye's Cressida, first in a lovely gray gown with salmon stole and parasol and later in sultry red velvet, is a southern belle-wether of wantonness (I half expected to hear the Duke of Mantua singing "La donna e mobile" in the wings). And Hiram Sherman brings the suave relish of a Kentucky colonel to the role of Pandarus...