'Nothing is fair in love and war, especially not in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, where betrayal and treachery take place both in the bed and on the battlefield.' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, 24.7.09 'one of Shakespeare's top five plays' Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard, 24.7.09 'Shakespeare's musing on the senselessness of war may feel particularly timely today' Julie Carpenter, Daily Express, 24.7.09 'it is perfectly suited to our era of dubious wars, conniving politicians and celebrity partner swaps.' Robert Gore-Langton, Mail on Sunday, 2.8.09 'In its mood of ugly disenchantment and corrosive cynicism it is perhaps the most modern of all Shakespeare's plays.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 27.7.09

David Bevington is Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He has edited the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a single volume for HarperCollins (now Longman) and in individual paperbacks for the Bantam Shakespeare, as well as King Henry IV Part 1 (Oxford University Press) and Antony and Cleopatra (New Cambridge Shakespeare). He is the editor of Medieval Drama. His many other publications include From 'Mankind' to Marlowe, Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture.