And at that time bequeath you my diseases… the 1981 BBC Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida.

This play has always fascinated me. It’s so deliciously bitter and cynical, so relentless corrosive. I imagine it as the work of an aging Shakespeare making a very deliberate attempt to vandalise Romeo and Juliet. While R&J fails certain Aristotelian definitions of a tragedy insofar as the principals perish for purely circumstantial reasons rather than because of … Continue reading And at that time bequeath you my diseases… the 1981 BBC Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida.