SOURCE: "The Inaction of Troilus and Cressida," in Essays in Criticism, Vol. XXXII, No. 2, April, 1982, pp. 119-37.
In the following essay, first read to senior members of the Oxford English Faculty in 1972, Everett explores the fragmented narrative of Troilus and Cressida, characterizing the drama as "a sequence of brilliantly-achieved moments that are incomparable in their power to startle, to needle and to entertain. "
