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Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Pages
about 100
Category
Literature & Fiction
Language
English
Reading time
1.8 h at 250 wpm
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From the opening

Prologue. Scene I. Troy. Before Priam’s palace. Scene II. Troy. A street. Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent.

ACT II Scene I. The Grecian camp. Scene II. Troy. Priam’s palace. Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.

ACT III Scene I. Troy. Priam’s palace. Scene II. Troy. Pandarus’ orchard. Scene III. The Greek camp.

ACT IV Scene I. Troy. A street. Scene II. Troy. The court of Pandarus’ house. Scene III. Troy. A street before Pandarus’ house. Scene IV. Troy. Pandarus’ house. Scene V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.

ACT V Scene I. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles. Scene II. The Grecian camp. Before Calchas’ tent. Scene III. Troy. Before Priam’s palace. Scene IV. The plain between Troy and the Grecian camp. Scene V. Another part of the plain. Scene VI. Another part of the plain. Scene VII. Another part of the plain. Scene VIII. Another part of the plain. Scene IX. Another part of the plain. Scene X. Another part of the plain.

His sons: HECTOR TROILUS PARIS DEIPHOBUS HELENUS MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam

CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida AGAMEMNON, the Greek general MENELAUS, his brother

THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Greek ALEXANDER, servant to Cressida SERVANT to Troilus SERVANT to Paris SERVANT to Diomedes HELEN, wife to Menelaus ANDROMACHE, wife to Hector CASSANDRA, daughter to Priam, a prophetess CRESSIDA, daughter to Calchas

In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf’d, Have to the port of Athens sent their ships Fraught with the ministers and instruments Of cruel war. Sixty and nine that wore Their crownets regal from the Athenian bay Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures The ravish’d Helen, Menelaus’ queen, With wanton Paris sleeps—and that’s the quarrel. To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their war-like fraughtage.

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