Word: patroclus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other players in the cast of 30 are Thayer David, Pandarus; Jonathan Bishop '48, Helenus; William A. West '49, Achilles; Richard Grenier '45, Patroclus; and Jeanne Tufts of Boston's Actors' Theater Group, Cassandra...
...breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them-they too will bow the neck in their turn...