TROILUS & CRESSIDA. William Shakespeare

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       William Shakespeare

      TROILUS & CRESSIDA

       Including The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

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Table of Contents

       Troilus and Cressida

       DRAMATIS PERSONAE

       PROLOGUE

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       ACT III.

       ACT IV.

       ACT V.

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      Troilus and Cressida

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE

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       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

      

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      TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

       In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece

       The princes orgulous, their high blood chaf’d,