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Troilus and Cressida By William Shakespeare

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters.

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Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare

Published: 1602

Categorie(s): Fiction, Drama

Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ About Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia

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Act I

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 thence away

> To what may be digested in a play.