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	Troilus and Cressida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The History of Troilus and Cressida is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of Hamlet.
		In one Troilus, a Trojan prince, woos Cressida, has sex with her, and professes never-dying love just before she is traded with the Greeks for a prisoner of war.
		The story of Troilus and Cressida is a medieval fable that has no basis in Greek mythology; Shakespeare drew on a number of sources for this plotline, in particular Chaucer's version of the tale, Troilus and Criseyde.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida (1051 words)

	Theatre for a New Audience: Troilus and Cressida, Act V Scene 2
		Troilus and Cressida is obviously a play about both love and war, but these two great concerns of literature are so thoroughly interwoven in Shakespeare’s play that it is hard to see one without considering the other.
		In his revision, the audience knows that Cressida has plotted with her father an escape back to Troy and to Troilus, and that her seeming surrender to Diomedes is merely a ploy to enable that.
		Cressida is visibly brutalized by the Trojans who give her up and by the Greeks who reduce her to an object.
	www.tfana.org /2001/troilus/troilus07prt.htm (2216 words)

	Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		We learn that Troilus feels the war over Helen is dumb; also that Pandarus refuses to woo Cressida for Troilus and that she is stubborn, chaste, and against all suitors.
		However, Troilus declares they should keep her and continue fighting since it would be dishonorable to return a prize which they had all cheered Paris for acquiring seven years ago, namely Helen.
		Troilus leaves to speak with his father and Pandarus is stuck with informing Cressida, at which she falls into deep despair.
	www.online-literature.com /shakespeare/cressida (1840 words)

	Troilus and Cressida
		The Trojan soldier Troilus, a brother of Paris, is conversing with Pandarus, the uncle of Cressida, a Trojan maid.
		Troilus: Youngest son of Priam, king of Troy, and therefore a prince of the realm.
		Cressida willingly becomes the mistress of Diomedes, Hector and Ajax fight to a draw, Cressida welcomes the attention of the Greeks, and Achilles waylays Hector with the help of fellow Greeks when Hector is unarmed and resting.
	cummingsstudyguides.net /xTroilus.html (3204 words)

	SparkNotes: Troilus and Cressida: Summary
		Troilus is assisted in his pursuit of her by Pandarus, Cressida's uncle.
		That night, Pandarus brings Troilus and Cressida together, and after they pledge to be forever true to one another, he leads them to a bedchamber to consummate their love.
		Meanwhile, Cressida's father, the treacherous Trojan priest Calchas, asks the Greek commanders to exchange a Trojan prisoner for his daughter, so that he may be reunited with her.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/troilus/summary.html (538 words)

	Troilus and Cressida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Amidst all this, Troilus, the son of King Priam, tries to woo the unmoving Cressida, who has sworn not to love again after her previous husband fell in battle.
		Cressida does not know that Evadne, her servant, has been told by Calkas to conceal all messages from the Trojan suitor.
		Troilus arrives in an hour of truce to meet Cressida, who laments that all is too late.
	www.classic99.com /otroil.htm (365 words)

	Troilus and Cressida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Troilus is in love with Cressida, daughter of the High Priest Calkas, who advises surrender to the Greeks, following the Delphic oracle, and himself plans to desert to the Greeks.
		Pandarus, Cressida's uncle, succeeds in bringing her together with Troilus, but in the morning the Greek prince Diomede demands that Cressida be exchanged for the Trojan Antenor, taken prisoner by the Greeks.
		Troilus attacks Diomede and is killed by Calkas, who is sent back to the Trojans in chains, while Cressida kills herself.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Troilus_and_Cressida.htm (201 words)

	troilussummary
		Cressida promises to meet him the next night, and Diomedes asks for a token of her truth; she brings the sleeve (which she wasn't wearing).
		She immediately realizes how true Troilus had been (and the sleeve was supposed to be a symbol of her own trueness to him), and she repents of giving the sleeve, and takes it back.
		Troilus announces to the Trojan commanders that "Hector is slain." He laments the death, wondering who will tell the parents: the news will freeze his parents cold, and "Scare Troy out of itself." As they leave the camps for Troy, he meets Pandarus, who he snubs.
	home.uchicago.edu /~ahkissel/troilussummary.html (2014 words)

	Amazon.com: Troilus and Cressida (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin): Books: William Shakespeare,R. A. Foakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There is only one character in 'Troilus' who can be said to be at all noble and not self-interested, the eldest Trojan prince Hector, who, despite his odd interpreation of the quality 'honour', detests a meaningless war, and tries to spare as many of his enemies' lives as he can.
		Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespear`s many romances, and, like most of his romances, is a tragedy.
		Cressida, however, is the daughter of a Greek sympathizer(if that is the correct word)and may not be able to honour her commitment to the Trojan prince...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140707417?v=glance (1621 words)

	Troilus and Cressida on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [Troilus and Cressida], a medieval romance distantly related to characters in Greek legend.
		Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam and Hecuba), fell in love with Cressida (Chryseis), daughter of Calchas.
		When she was exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of war, Cressida swore to be faithful to Troilus, but then deceived him with Diomed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/TroilusN1.asp (249 words)

	Troilus and Cressida
		Cressida is haunted by the idea of the two selves always within her.
		Troilus and Cressida: dumbing down of the plot (adulteration from quarto or others?); lack of sympathy for the characters, on the part of the audience; lack of sympathy also for their comments about the world.
		Troilus is locked in while Cressida is complex (mostly bad?); her ambiguity comes with the equivocal contents of the letter.
	home.uchicago.edu /~ahkissel/troilus3.html (1472 words)

	Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Summary
		Troilus is the youngest son of Priam, in love with the Cressida, daughter of Calchas.
		Calchas, Cressida's father who has gone over to the Greek side, asks for his daughter to be brought to him as a reward for his services.
		Troilus asks her to be true of heart, and says he will come to each night in disguise by bribing the guards.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/ws_troiluscressida.html (1239 words)

	[EMLS 1.2 (August 1995): 2.1-54] The Texts of Troilus and Cressida
		In the first rejection, Troilus calls Pandarus "brother lackie," and assuming that this is not a misreading, or a scribal or compositorial error, the phrase may soften the rejection, and certainly links Troilus and Pandarus as brother lackeys, apparently to Cressida.
		Troilus says, "Good brother come you hither, / And bring AEneas and the Grecian with you" (2491-92), and these lines are spoken directly to Paris, rather than called offstage as the Q text seems to demand.
		Dealing with the problem of Troilus' double rejection of Pandarus, I note that there is no bibliographical evidence that either passage was meant to be deleted, that the passages are not identical, and that the double rejection may have been dramatically effective on the seventeenth century stage.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/01-2/godsshak.html (9877 words)

	Troilus and Cressida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Aubade sentiments accompany Troilus and Cressida in the morning and Pandarus is, as always, nearby with lewd comments.
		Cressida swears, "Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood, / If ever she leave Troilus!" (100-101), and then announces, "I'll go in and weep" (105).
		In this very next scene, intentionally juxtaposed, no doubt, Cressida is already bantering with the Greeks, themselves intent on gang-kissing her.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/t&c4.html (557 words)

	Drama: Troilus and Cressida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		TROILUS The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength, Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant; But I am weaker than a woman's tear, Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, Less valiant than the virgin in the night And skilless as unpractised infancy.
		CRESSIDA Then Troilus should have too much: if she praised him above, his complexion is higher than his; he having colour enough, and the other higher, is too flaming a praise for a good complexion.
		TROILUS Why, there you touch'd the life of our design: Were it not glory that we more affected Than the performance of our heaving spleens, I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood Spent more in her defence.
	drama.eserver.org /plays/renaissance/shakespeare/comedies/troilus-and-cressida.txt (10669 words)

	Troilus & Cressida
		Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is one of the most philosophical works of the 17th century.
		Hector declares her not worth the lives she costs but when his brother Troilus contends that honour demands they continue to tight for her, Hector is brought round to his point of view.
		Troilus, however, is much distracted from these military concerns by his love for Cressida, the daughter ot Calchas, a Trojan who has defected to the Greek camp leaving his daughter in Troy.
	www.empirenet.com /~wildcard/quast/troilus.htm (1042 words)

	Theater News - Reviews: Troilus and Cressida -
		After a quick, makeshift wedding ceremony and consummation, the news is received that Cressida's defecting father has negotiated to bring her over to the Greek side along with him in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war.
		Then Ajax ends up not fighting Hector, Troilus notices that Cressida has become a little too friendly with her Greek escort, Diomedes, and Achilles is persuaded to live up to his glorious reputation by rejoining the battle and fighting Hector.
		Troilus and Cressida is one of those Shakespearean plays that falls into the "too-often-neglected" category.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1346 (1022 words)

	William Walton : Troilus and Cressida by Len Mullenger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		One of the reasons for the protracted gestation was the death of Alice Wimborne in April 1948; the other was the need to write the score for Olivier's Hamlet.
		Walton wrote the part of Cressida for Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, who did indeed record extracts from it in 1955 (currently available on EMI mid-price CDM7 64199-2).
		She agreed to perform in the opera which meant that the part of Cressida would have to be transposed down.
	www.musicweb-international.com /troil1.htm (1265 words)

	AroundCinci :: CSF presents 'Troilus & Cressida'
		In the seventh year of the war between the Trojans and Greeks, Troilus, a Trojan Prince, falls in love with Cressida, a Trojan woman whose father has defected to the Greeks.
		After confessing their love, they are broken apart by the politics of war when Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner.
		Since “Troilusand Cressida” was never produced during his lifetime, Shakespeare never experienced any political fallout from the play.
	www.aroundcinci.com /gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=2893 (748 words)

	Troilus and Cressida at Absolute Shakespeare
		Troilus, the youngest son of King Priam (King of Troy) tells Pandarus that he is in love with Cressida, the daughter of Trojan priest Calchas.
		Troilus meets Diomedes, telling him to respect Calchas' daughter (not sleep with her).
		Hearing this, Troilus follows Diomedes, spying his lover giving Diomedes the sleeve he gave her and learning that though she still loves him, she is beginning to like Diomedes.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /plays/troilus_and_cressida/troilus_and_cressida.htm (574 words)

	William Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida
		Troilus is the better man of the two.
		Few words to fair faith: Troilus shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst shall be a mock for his truth; and what truth can speak truest not truer than Troilus.
		Good my brother Troilus, Tell you the lady what she is to do And haste her to the purpose.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rbear/shake/tc.html (15954 words)

	Troilus and Cressida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Troilus waits for Pandarus to bring Cressida along and indulges in anticipation (III.ii.16-27); "he expresses his longing for her in terms that complexly envisage the sense of destruction of the self in sexual passion" (Wells 216).
		Standard interpretation is that all of Cressida's shilly-shallying is part of her act, but it's oddly self-degrading.
		Calchas, Cressida's father, finagles a swap of prisoners which will bring his daughter among the Greeks.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/t&c3.html (307 words)

	Troilus and Cressida - Bard on the Beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Against a backdrop of relentless war, Prince Troilus and beautiful Cressida fall in love only to have Cressida swept away to the enemy camp in a prisoner exchange.
		There she betrays Troilus, succumbing to advances from Diomedes.
		However love is not the only victim, as the ravages of war tear at honour and freindship, even for great heroes like Achilles and Hector.
	www.bardonthebeach.org /troilus_cressida.html (83 words)

	comedies/troilusandcressida
		TROILUS Walk into her house; I'll bring her to the Grecian presently: And to his hand when I deliver her, Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus A priest there offering to it his own heart.
		TROILUS Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
		TROILUS Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously, To shame the zeal of my petition to thee In praising her: I tell thee, lord of Greece, She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant.
	www.augusta.de /~thk/shakespeare/comedies/troilusandcressida.html (13737 words)

	GEOFFREY CHAUCER : POEMS : TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
		Troilus to admit that the well of all his woe, his sweetest foe, is
		Troilus praised for his bravery "of them that her were liefest
		Troilus sedulously observes the counsel; and the lovers have
	www.everypoet.com /archive/poetry/Geoffrey_Chaucer/chaucer_poems_TROILUS_AND_CRESSIDA.htm (11205 words)

	Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida Study Questions
		But it can also be argued that she made the best of her limited options in a masculine world.
		Although he is an influential person (a Trojan prince and a respected war hero), he is strangely passive when Cressida is traded to the Greeks.
		How important is his role in Troilus and Cressida's love affair, in their parting, in Cressida's "betrayal," and in Troilus's death?
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/tc.html (1123 words)

	Theatre for a New Audience: Troilus and Cressida
		Any production of this challenging and disturbing play is noteworthy, as it is so rarely performed, but one directed by Sir Peter, who, among his many other achievements, was one of the founders of the Royal Shakespeare Company, certainly should not pass without comment and consideration.
		The play speaks powerfully to a modern sensibility; indeed it may be part of what has formed it.
		We have come to see Troilus and Cressida as a play profoundly about war: why it is fought, how it is justified, and what it costs both its winners and losers (if the difference can in fact be discerned).
	www.tfana.org /2001/troilus (369 words)

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