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| | Troilus and Cressida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | 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. | | | The story has been adapted as an opera, Troilus and Cressida, by William Walton in 1954. | | | 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. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troilus_and_Cressida
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| | Troilus and Cressida - definition of Troilus and Cressida in Encyclopedia |
| | Troilus and Cressida is also an opera by William Walton; see Troilus and Cressida (opera). | | | Pandarus appears and attempts to sell her on the sundry excellencies of Troilus, concluding "Hector is not a better man than Troilus." He entertains her with a ribald joke about Helen and Troilus' beard. | | | This is one of the playwright's three problem plays, so-called because they cannot be easily classified as tragedy or comedy. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Troilus_and_Cressida
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| | Theatre for a New Audience: Troilus and Cressida, Act V Scene 2 |
| | 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 goes, as she must; and is successfully wooed by the Greek Diomedes. | | | Troilus has usually gotten off more easily, escaping serious censure, as he is seen as an inexperienced but honorable young man, understandably angry at his betrayal. |
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http://www.tfana.org/2001/troilus/troilus07prt.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | Troilus is hopelessly in love with the Trojan maid Cressida. | | | Although callow Troilus loses his love, he fails to realize she was a wanton to begin with. | | | Troilus falls in love with Cressida without due heed to her faults. |
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http://cummingsstudyguides.net/xTroilus.html
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| | Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare: A searchable online version at The Literature Network |
| | Eventually, she offers Troilus' sleeve to Diomedes, then asks for it back, but Diomedes refuses and swears to wear it to battle hoping to provoke her (unknown to him) lover to fight him. | | | Troilus returns and informs her she must leave "Troy and Troilus". | | | Ulysses, not knowing of Troilus' love for her tells him Diomedes dines with her and Calchas and grows increasingly amorous of her. |
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http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/cressida
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| | Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Summary |
| | Troilus asks her to be true of heart, and says he will come to each night in disguise by bribing the guards. | | | Troilus and Cressida have had one night of love together. | | | Troilus chides Hector for his chivalrously allowing fallen Greeks to live and fight another day. |
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http://www.mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/ws_troiluscressida.html
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| | Troilus cannot believe that this is his same loving Cressida--there must be a true one underneath the false one. | | | She asks him if he will be true, and Troilus confesses it. | | | Troilus says that he will take Cressida to Diomedes ("the Grecian") himself. |
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http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahkissel/troilussummary.html
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| | Troilus & Cressida |
| | Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is one of the most philosophical works of the 17th century. | | | Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford upon Avon. | | | However, after only one night together they are parted when, in exchange tor the captured general Antener, Cressida is sent te join her father in the Greek camp. |
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http://www.empirenet.com/~wildcard/quast/troilus.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | Troilus and Cressida conversations--C's suspicion that she may do things that she doesn't exactly want. | | | We don't want to be a part of this kind of world (though in a regular comedy, we might want to live there; those have a kind of hope). | | | Having shown this Cressida who must pick up the pieces and refashion herself, we confront Cressida's doubleness in 5.2. |
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http://home.uchicago.edu/~ahkissel/troilus3.html
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| | SparkNotes: Troilus and Cressida: Summary |
| | In the seventh year of the Trojan War, a Trojan prince named Troilus falls in love with Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan priest who has defected to the Greek side. | | | Meanwhile, in the Greek camp, the Greek general, Agamemnon, wonders why his commanders seem so downcast and pessimistic. | | | Home : English : Shakespeare Study Guides : Troilus and Cressida : Summary |
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http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/troilus/summary.html
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| | Troilus and Cressida at Absolute Shakespeare |
| | Cressida and Troilus finally admit they love each other. | | | However, despite her mocking words, Cressida does start to fall in love with Troilus. | | | Devastated but enraged, Troilus resolves to kill Diomedes on the battlefield and forget his lover... |
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http://absoluteshakespeare.com/plays/troilus_and_cressida/troilus_and_cressida.htm
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| | GEOFFREY CHAUCER : POEMS : TROILUS AND CRESSIDA |
| | Troilus sedulously observes the counsel; and the lovers have | | | Troilus praised for his bravery "of them that her were liefest | | | Cressida, who tells him that for three nights she has dreamed of |
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http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Geoffrey_Chaucer/chaucer_poems_TROILUS_AND_CRESSIDA.htm
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| | 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. | | | TROILUS O that I thought it could be in a woman-- As, if it can, I will presume in you-- To feed for aye her ramp and flames of love; To keep her constancy in plight and youth, Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! |
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http://www.augusta.de/~thk/shakespeare/comedies/troilusandcressida.html
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| | [EMLS 1.2 (August 1995): 2.1-54] The Texts of Troilus and Cressida |
| | This passage seems related to the earlier passage where Pandarus asks Cressida, "do you know a man if you see him?" She replies, "I, if I euer saw him before and knew him" (TLN 221-3). | | | But it is not my purpose in this section to examine and explain or rationalize each stage direction present in the Quarto and the Folio; I simply wish to give some reasons for the hypothesis that the two texts contain traces of two different performances in two different venues. | | | Although in this section of the paper I offer the hypothesis that Shakespeare may have planned to have Troilus reject Pandarus twice, in the next section I offer an hypothesis that accounts for the differences between the Quarto text and the Folio text in quite a different way. |
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http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/01-2/godsshak.html
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| | Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida Study Questions |
| | How important is his role in Troilus and Cressida's love affair, in their parting, in Cressida's "betrayal," and in Troilus's death? | | | 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. | | | (Are there other possible motivations than those he lists?) When first introduced, Troilus mocks lovers and the God of Love. |
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http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl512/tc.html
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| | Troilus and Cressida on Encyclopedia.com |
| | TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [Troilus and Cressida], a medieval romance distantly related to characters in Greek legend. | | | Arts Diary: A chance to laugh and cry with Bard cry; Troilus and Cressida at Theatr Cymru.(Features) | | | This story appeared first in Benoît de Sainte-More, from whom Boccaccio drew for his Filostrato. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/T/TroilusN1.asp
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | Unable to renounce Troilus' love on Diomede's demand, Cressida is turned against by the Greeks. | | | Basically, the two main title characters are found in ancient Troy, at the desperate time of being besieged by the Greeks. | | | As for Cressida, they intend to keep her as a prisoner but forlorn, she cheats her captors by taking her own life. |
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| | 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. | | | Troilus, a prince of Troy, loves the beautiful Cressida but can they resist the pressure to betray either their families or their countries? | | | As the Greeks’ love of war rages on, Troilus and Cressida’s battle for love begins. |
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http://www.aroundcinci.com/gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=2893
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| | William Walton : Troilus and Cressida by Len Mullenger |
| | When asked to open with the opera she demurred pleading another engagement, although Neil Tierney, in his biography of Walton, quotes Walter Legge as saying that she disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. | | | Covent Garden suggested the Hungarian soprano, Magda Laszio; Walton agreed that she had the looks but she could not speak any English. | | | William Walton : Troilus and Cressida by Len Mullenger |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/troil1.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida Reading Questions (Norton) |
| | What is the nature of the discussion between Cressida and Diomed (5.2.6-106)? | | | (Perhaps Ulysses is the one accompanying Troilus because Shakespeare wanted him on stage so that we would recall his speech.) | | | How comforting is Troilus' discussion of time (4.5.38-47)? |
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http://english.sxu.edu/boyer/304_rdg_qst/tro_nor_qst.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida - Bard on the Beach |
| | There she betrays Troilus, succumbing to advances from Diomedes. | | | Our production of this epic tale is set during the American Civil War. | | | 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. |
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http://www.bardonthebeach.org/troilus_cressida.html
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | Pandarus vicariously hovers about as Troilus and Cressida exchange confessions of love. | | | The three vow via speculations that would yield linguistic inheritances in the forms of proverbial phrases: "As true as Troilus," "As false as Cressid," and "all brokers-between Pandars." | | | Standard interpretation is that all of Cressida's shilly-shallying is part of her act, but it's oddly self-degrading. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/t&c3.html
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| | Theater News - Reviews: Troilus and Cressida - |
| | Via the character of Thersites, a grungy, Greek scrounger-joker who acts as chorus and commentator, Shakespeare cuts down the proud warriors who are killing one another merely to defend the honor of "a cuckold and a whore." | | | With Pandarus' encouragement, the pair finally meet and immediately fall in love--or lust, more likely. | | | Troilus and Cressida is one of those Shakespearean plays that falls into the "too-often-neglected" category. |
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http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/1346
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | She is induced to give in to the urging of Diomede, but, when a truce has been arranged and ransom prepared for Cressida, Troilus arrives to find her newly married to the Greek. | | | 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. | | | Troilus attacks Diomede and is killed by Calkas, who is sent back to the Trojans in chains, while Cressida kills herself. |
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http://www.naxos.com/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Troilus_and_Cressida.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | First, it's interesting and frightening that this characterizes the world of this play, that knowledge is really nothing more than vague suspicion or guesswork. | | | Nevertheless, Aeneas and Diomedes seem to have the type of natural antipathy to each other that Hector and Achilles experience. | | | News of the swap comes, after Pandarus tells Aeneas that he doesn't know if Troilus is lodged there at his house. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/shakespeare/t&c4.html
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| | Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare |
| | Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. | | | Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! | | | Each Troyan that is master of his heart, |
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http://www.4literature.net/William_Shakespeare/Troilus_and_Cressida
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| | Theatre for a New Audience: Troilus and Cressida |
| | All quotations from the play are taken from The Arden Shakespeare (Third Edition), edited by David Bevington. | | | The play speaks powerfully to a modern sensibility; indeed it may be part of what has formed it. | | | 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. |
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http://www.tfana.org/2001/troilus
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| | Troilus and Cressida - Act V |
| | I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry: | | | [Aside to TROILUS] Follow his torch; he goes to | | | Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name! |
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http://www.field-of-themes.com/shakespeare/comtext/comedy/troilus5.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida |
| | HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, HELENUS -- his sons |
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| | Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609) |
| | Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609): Scene Index | | | This site is supported by The University of Victoria and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. |
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| | Troilus and Cressida Summary |
| | In the opening scene, Troilus, the younger brother of Paris and Hector, debates whether or not to arm himself for the daily skirmish over Helen between the Trojan and Greek soldiers when he is engaged in his own romantic siege of Cressida's affections (Cressida is the daughter of the Trojan priest Calchas, who has taken... | | | Helen has been abducted from Menelaus, her elderly Greek husband, by the younger Paris, son of Priam and brother of the renowned Trojan warrior Hector. | | | Tell a friend about Troilus and Cressida at eNotes. |
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http://www.enotes.com/troilus-cressida
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| | Troilus and Cressida Films |
| | Since George Rylands has only one other directing credit (another made-for-TV-movie called "The Ages of Man"), this may not be the one you go out and try to find first. | | | Unfortunately for you and me, there simply have not been very many films made of "Troilus and Cressida" to help us out in enjoying the exciting story. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jeffreys/trojan/filmog.htm
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| | Troilus and Cressida - Microsoft Reader Catalog of eBooks |
| | Courtesy of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center, providing classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more. | | | Troilus and Cressida - Microsoft Reader Catalog of eBooks |
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| | Adamson, Jane Troilus and Cressida - Harvester New Critical Introductions [ Harvester 1987] |
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