William Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida (Arkangel Shakespeare - Fully Dramatized) (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) William Shakespeare Unabridged edition

[Full-Cast Audio Theater Dramatization. Troilus is played by Ian Pepperell and Cressida by Julia Ford. Norman Rodway is Pandarus and David Troughton plays Thersites.]

Troy is beseiged by the invading Greeks, but the young Trojan prince Troilus can think only of his love for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus brings the two together, but after only one night news comes that Cressida must be sent to the enemy camp. There, as Troilus looks on, she yields to the wooing of the Greek Diomedes. The heroic action of the Trojan War story is undercut by the commentary of Thersites, who provides a cynical chorus to this dark and brilliant play.