Production Information

text of 'Troylus and Cressida'

The Shakespeare Recording Society, Inc.

'The Tragedy of Troylus and Cressida' by William Shakespeare

Produced for The Shakespeare Recording Society by Caedmon Records, Inc. 1962.

Directed by Howard Sackler.

For this recording the complete Penguin Shakespeare text has been used.

Cast

Priam, King of Troy

John Bennett

His sons

Hector
Troylus
Paris
Deiphobus
Helenus
A Bastard Son Of Priam

Edward De Souza
Jeremy Brett
Alan Howard
Jeremy Brett
Jeremy Brett
Daniel Thorndike

Troyans

Aeneas

Graham Crowden

Antenor

Graham Crowden

Calchas, a Troyan Priest with
the Greeks:

Richard Goolden

Pandarus, Uncle to Cressida

Max Adrian

Agamemnon, the Grecian General

David William

Menelaus, his Brother

David Thorndike

Grecian Lords

Achilles
Ajax
Ulysses
Nestor
Diomedes
Patroclus
Thersites, a scurrilous Greek
Helen, Wife to Menelaus
Andromache, Wife to Hector
Cassandra, Daughter to Priam; a prophetess
Cressida, Daughter to Calchas
Servant
Boy

Derek Godfrey
Peter Bayliss
Eric Porter
Walter Hudd
Alec McCowen
Christopher Guinee
Cyril Cusack
Patricia Routledge
Anne Bell
Dona Martyn
Diane Cilento
Jeremy Geidt
Rodger Shepherd

Scene: Troy, and the Grecian camp before it

Playing Shakespeare/Troilus and Cressida