title: Troilus and Cressida: The Oxford Shakespeare
author:  William Shakespeare 
description: `authoritatively tackles one of the most textually troubling plays'<br />Sunday Times<br /><br />'Stanley Wells' OUP Complete Works of Shakespeare is now eight years old and has spawned a new Oxford Shakespeare which appears now in splendidly affordable volumes in that nonpareil of libraries of good reading The World's Classics.'<br />The Oxford Times
zlib_text: The Meaning of
  SHAKESPEARE
  
  The Meaning of
  SHAKESPEARE
  Volume I
  By
  HAROLD C.GODDARD
  Phoenix Bool~s
  THE
  UNIVERSITY
  OF
  CI-IICAGO
  PRESS
  CHICAGO
  Be
  LONDON
  
  THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, CHICAGO 60637
  THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, LTD., LONDON
  © 1951 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved
  Published 1951. Paperback edition 1960
  Printed in the United States of America
  00 99 98
  15 16
  ISBN: 0-226-30041-2
  LCN: 51-2288
  §
  The paper used in this publication meets the
  minimum requirements of the American National
  Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of
  Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI
  Z39.48-1984.
  
  Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.
  -KING JOHN
  When such a spaciuus mirror'J' set be!ore him
  He needs must see himself.
  -ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
  The secrets {if nature
  Have 1UJt more gift in taciturnity.
  -TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
  Is there any ctrUSe in nature that :rnakes these hard
  hearts'?
  -KING LEAR
  How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea
  Whose action is 1UJ s