Troilus And Cressida
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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subject: troilus
subject: cressida
subject: hector
subject: pandarus
subject: achilles
subject: port
subject: athens
subject: sent
subject: ships
subject: vow
subject: ransack
subject: troy
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: english
subject: literature
type: text
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sort title: Troilus And Cressida
full text: TROILUS AND CRESSIDA DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM king of Troy. HECTOR | | TROILUS | | PARIS | his sons. | DEIPHOBUS | | HELENUS | MARGARELON a bastard son of Priam. AENEAS | | Trojan commanders. ANTENOR | CALCHAS a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks. PANDARUS uncle to Cressida. AGAMEMNON the Grecian general. MENELAUS his brother. ACHILLES | | AJAX | | ULYSSES | | Grecian princes. NESTOR | | DIOMEDES | | PATROCLUS | THERSITES a deformed and scurrilous Grecian. ALEXANDER servant to Cressida. Servant to Troilus. (Boy:) Servant to Paris. Servant to Diomedes. (Servant:) HELEN wife to Menelaus. ANDROMACHE wife to Hector. CASSANDRA daughter to Priam, a prophetess. CRESSIDA daughter to Calchas. Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants. SCENE Troy, and the Grecian camp before it. TROILUS AND CRESSIDA 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: 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 warlike fraughtage: now on Dardan plains The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city, Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien, And Antenorides, with massy staples And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperr up the sons of Troy. Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits, On one and other side, Trojan and Greek, Sets all on hazard: and hither am I come A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited In like conditions as our argument, To tell you, fair beholders, that our play Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils, Beginning in the middle, starting th…