Our conference will be dedicated to Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida or, to quote Michael Dobson’s lecture title, “the most performed unperformed play in world drama”. Addressed to an “eternal reader”, placed in the Folio Edition between tragedies and histories, often described as a problem play or “bitter war comedy” – Troilus and Cressida is a play that raises many questions and offers numerous scope for interpretation, and not only in terms of its genre-historical classification. With its focus on politics, the pursuit of power, selfishness, profit and a gruelling war, Troilus and Cressida has become alarmingly topical, which is why it is high time to make this complex drama the focus of one of our autumn conferences.

Here you can download the programme.