Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida: Act 2, scene 1 and 2

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): "Miller...stresses the play's comic elements by encouraging Pandarus (Charles Gray) and Thersites (Jack Birkett, credited as 'The Incredible Orlando') to camp their parts up outrageously - he felt this was especially necessary in Thersites' case, as he found the grimly misanthropic character "rather tiresome" on the page. Although primarily a dancer and mime, the blind Birkett had also played Caliban in Derek Jarman's 1979 film of The Tempest, which is where Miller had first noticed him. ...