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THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA |
by William Shakespeare |
DRAMATIS PERSONAE |
PRIAM, King of Troy |
His sons: |
HECTOR |
TROILUS |
PARIS |
DEIPHOBUS |
HELENUS |
MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam |
Trojan commanders: |
AENEAS |
ANTENOR |
CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks |
PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida |
AGAMEMNON, the Greek general |
MENELAUS, his brother |
Greek commanders: |
ACHILLES |
AJAX |
ULYSSES |
NESTOR |
DIOMEDES |
PATROCLUS |
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 |
Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants |
SCENE: |
Troy and the Greek camp before it |
PROLOGUE |
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA |
PROLOGUE |
In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece |
The princes orgillous, 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 th' 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. 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, Troyan 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. |
Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are; |
Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war. |
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