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31 CHAPTERS

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Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressidais one ofShakespeare’s“problem plays,” characterized by its duality of tone as it jumps from bawdy comedic to dark tragedy. The plot was sourced from two epic poems:Homer’sIliadis the source of the play’s Greek mythological references, the Trojan War, and the war’s key figures, while Chaucer’sTroilus and Criseydeis the source of Troilus’s love affair with a Trojan woman. At the beginning ofTroilus and Cressida, seven years have passed since the...

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CHAPTERS

31

Dramatis Personae

Priam, King of Troy Hector, his son Troilus, his son Paris, his son Deiphobus, his son Helenus, his son Margarelon, a bastard son of Priam Aeneas, Trojan commander Antenor, Trojan commander Calchas, a...

Prologue

In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed, Have to the port of Athens sent their ships, Fraught with the ministers and instruments Of cruel war:...

Act 1

Troy. Before Priam’s palace. Troilus: Enter Troilus armed, and Pandarus. Troilus: Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find such cruel battle here wi...

Scene 1 1

Troy. Before Priam’s palace. Troilus: Enter Troilus armed, and Pandarus. Troilus: Call here my varlet; I’ll unarm again: Why should I war without the walls of Troy, That find such cruel battle here wi...

Scene 1 2

The Same. A street. Cressida: Enter Cressida and Alexander. Cressida: Who were those went by? Alexander: Queen Hecuba and Helen. Cressida: And whither go they? Alexander: Up to the eastern tower, Whos...

Scene 1 3

The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent. Agamemnon: Sennet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Menelaus, and others. Agamemnon: Princes, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks? The ample pro...

Act 2

A part of the Grecian camp. Ajax: Enter Ajax and Thersites. Ajax: Thersites! Thersites: Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over, generally? Ajax: Thersites! Thersites: And those boils did run? ...

Scene 2 1

A part of the Grecian camp. Ajax: Enter Ajax and Thersites. Ajax: Thersites! Thersites: Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over, generally? Ajax: Thersites! Thersites: And those boils did run? ...

Scene 2 2

Troy. A room in Priam’s palace. Priam: Enter Priam, Hector, Troilus, Paris, and Helenus. Priam: After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: “Deliver Helen,...

Scene 2 3

The Grecian camp. Before Achilles’ tent. Thersites: Enter Thersites, solus. Thersites: How now, Thersites! what, lost in the labyrinth of thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He beats me, ...

Act 3

Troy. Priam’s palace. Servant: Enter a Servant and Pandarus. Pandarus: Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow the young Lord Paris? Servant: Ay, sir, when he goes before me. Pandarus: You de...

Scene 3 1

Troy. Priam’s palace. Servant: Enter a Servant and Pandarus. Pandarus: Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow the young Lord Paris? Servant: Ay, sir, when he goes before me. Pandarus: You de...

Scene 3 2

The same. Pandarus’ orchard. Pandarus: Enter Pandarus and Troilus’ Boy, meeting. Pandarus: How now! where’s thy master? at my cousin Cressida’s? Boy: No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither. ...

Scene 3 3

The Grecian camp. Before Achilles’ tent. Agamemnon: Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Ajax, Menelaus, and Calchas. Calchas: Now, princes, for the service I have done you, The advantage of th...

Act 4

Troy. A street. Aeneas: Enter, from one side, Aeneas, and Servant with a torch; from the other, Paris, Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes, and others, with torches. Paris: See, ho! who is that there? Deipho...

Scene 4 1

Troy. A street. Aeneas: Enter, from one side, Aeneas, and Servant with a torch; from the other, Paris, Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes, and others, with torches. Paris: See, ho! who is that there? Deipho...

Scene 4 2

The same. Court of Pandarus’ house. Troilus: Enter Troilus and Cressida. Troilus: Dear, trouble not yourself: the morn is cold. Cressida: Then, sweet my lord, I’ll call mine uncle down; He shall unbol...

Scene 4 3

The same. Street before Pandarus’ house. Paris: Enter Paris, Troilus, Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor, and Diomedes. Paris: It is great morning, and the hour prefix’d Of her delivery to this valiant Greek ...

Scene 4 4

The same. Pandarus’ house. Pandarus: Enter Pandarus and Cressida. Pandarus: Be moderate, be moderate. Cressida: Why tell you me of moderation? The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And viole...

Scene 4 5

The Grecian camp. Lists set out. Ajax: Enter Ajax, armed; Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Ulysses, Nestor, and others. Agamemnon: Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair, Anticipating ti...

Act 5

The Grecian camp. Before Achilles’ tent. Achilles: Enter Achilles and Patroclus. Achilles: I’ll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night, Which with my scimitar I’ll cool to-morrow. Patroclus, let u...

Scene 5 1

The Grecian camp. Before Achilles’ tent. Achilles: Enter Achilles and Patroclus. Achilles: I’ll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night, Which with my scimitar I’ll cool to-morrow. Patroclus, let u...

Scene 5 2

The same. Before Calchas’ tent. Diomedes: Enter Diomedes. Diomedes: What, are you up here, ho? speak. Calchas: Within. Who calls? Diomedes: Calchas, I think. Where’s your daughter? Calchas: Within. Sh...

Scene 5 3

Troy. Before Priam’s palace. Hector: Enter Hector and Andromache. Andromache: When was my lord so much ungently temper’d, To stop his ears against admonishment? Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day. ...

Scene 5 4

Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp. Thersites: Alarums: excursions. Enter Thersites. Thersites: Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I’ll go look on. That dissembling abominable varlets, Di...

Scene 5 5

Another part of the plains. Diomedes: Enter Diomedes and a Servant. Diomedes: Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus’ horse; Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid: Fellow, commend my service to her...

Scene 5 6

Another part of the plains. Ajax: Enter Ajax. Ajax: Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head! Diomedes: Enter Diomedes. Diomedes: Troilus, I say! where’s Troilus? Ajax: What wouldst thou? Diomedes:...

Scene 5 7

Another part of the plains. Achilles: Enter Achilles, with Myrmidons. Achilles: Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel: Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves...

Scene 5 8

Another part of the plains. Hector: Enter Hector. Hector: Most putrefied core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. Now is my day’s work done; I’ll take good breath: Rest, sword...

Scene 5 9

Another part of the plains. Agamemnon: Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, and others, marching. Shouts within. Agamemnon: Hark! hark! what shout is that? Nestor: Peace, drums! Within. ...

Scene 5 10

Another part of the plains. Aeneas: Enter Aeneas and Trojans. Aeneas: Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field: Never go home; here starve we out the night. Troilus: Enter Troilus. Troilus: Hector i...