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- Title
AN EARLY ALLUSION TO TROlLUS AND CRESSIDA.
- Authors
Velz, John W.
- Abstract
The article focuses on an early allusion to "Troilus and Cressida," a play by British poet William Shakespeare. In "The True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell," the Earl of Bedford, England, is trapped in Bononia, Bologna alone and surrounded by enemies. His defiance apparently alludes to "Troilus and Cressida." Shakespeare seems to have gained the shock effect he sought. The title page of the 1602 edition of "Cromwell," carries the aspiration "Written by W.S.," and the play was printed in the third and the fourth folios of Shakespeare among the apocrypha.
- Subjects
BEDFORD (England); ENGLAND; ALLUSIONS; TROILUS &; Cressida (Play : Shakespeare); SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; LITERARY style
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1986, Vol 33, Issue 3, p358
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article