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  • Troilus and Cressida

    - Allan Bloom, "Troilus and Cressida" in Love and Friendship, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY, 1993.
    Excerpt: “Troilus and Cressida, perhaps the bleakest of all Shakespeare’s plays, presents itself as a wildly witty travesty of antiquity’s greatest heroes. Shakespeare’s message seems to be that heroes are not heroes, because they are… More