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Jilting of Troilus (1957-12-05)
About this film
In this episode, Shakepeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida inspires "Professor and Lowell Television Lecturer at Harvard University" I. A. Richards to continue his disquisition on beauty and truth, love and knowledge. Richards emphasizes the play's conflict between love and "The sort of truth that we spell with an 'o' and pronounce 'troth.'" To illustrate, Richards displays a line-drawing of a hypothetical staging of Act 5 Scene 2 of the play. In this scene, Ulysses prevents Troilus from entering a tent in which Diomedes woos Cressida while depraved Thersites looks on. Richards refers interested viewers to his book Speculative Instruments. Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by John Marx & Mark Cooper.
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
I. A. Richards, Harvard University, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Trojan War, love and betrayal, New Criticism, educational television, WGBH, 1950s television, literary criticism, Elizabethan drama
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