"These audio recordings are a companion to The Complete Pelican Shakespeare published by Penguin Putnam Inc. The productions adhere to the edition edited by Alfred Harbage that was available at the time they were recorded. Subsequently, a new edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare, editied by Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, was published in late 2002." - insert.

Liner notes include plot synopsis and complete cast list.

Director, Clive Brill ; composer, Dominique Le Gendre ; producers, Bill Shepherd and Tom Treadwell.

Ian Pepperell (Troilus), Julia Ford (Cressida), Norman Rodway (Pandarus), Gerard Murphy (Ulysses), Philip Voss (Agamemnon), David Troughton (Thersites), Julian Wadham (Achilles), Charles Simpson (Hector), Duncan Bell (Diomedes), Clifford Rose (Priam), Rob Edwards (Aeneas), Trevor Martin (Nestor), Michael Higgs (Patroclus), Chook Sibtain (Paris), Ben Martin (Ajax), Carolyn Backhouse (Andromache), Ian Gelder (Prologue/Calchas), Mark Lambert (Menelaus), Annabel Capper (Helen), Elli Garnett (Cassandra), Rupert Mason (Deiphobus).

"Troy is besieged by the invading Greeks, but the young Trojan prince Troilus can think only of his love for Cressida. Her uncle Pandarus brings the two together, but after only one night news comes that Cressida must be sent to the enemy camp. There, as Troilus looks on, she yields to the wooing of the Greek Diomedes. The heroic action of the Trojan War story is undercut by the commentary of Thersites, who provides a cynical chorus to this dark and brilliant play"--Container.