Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, often shortened to Troilus and Cressida (/ ˈ t r ɔɪ l ʌ s ... ˈ k r ɛ s ɪ d ə / or / ˈ t r oʊ. ɪ l ʌ s /) [1] [2]), is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602. At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her ...
Shakespeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida, although much darker in tone, was also based in part on the material. Troilus and Criseyde are usually considered to be a courtly romance, although the generic classification is an area of significant debate in most Middle English literature.
Along with many of the major figures of the Trojan War, Thersites was a character in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (1602) in which he is described as "a deformed and scurrilous Grecian" and portrayed as a comic servant, in the tradition of the Shakespearean fool, but unusually given to abusive remarks to all he encounters.
Achilles (left) ambushing Troilus (on horseback, right). Etruscan fresco, Tomb of the Bulls, Tarquinia, 530–520 BC.. Troilus [1] (English: / ˈ t r ɔɪ l ə s / or / ˈ t r oʊ ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Τρωΐλος, romanized: Troïlos; Latin: Troilus) is a legendary character associated with the story of the Trojan War.
Pandarus, centre, with Cressida, illustration to Troilus and Cressida by Thomas Kirk. Pandarus / ˈ p æ n d ə r ə s / or Pandar / ˈ p æ n d ər / (Ancient Greek: Πάνδαρος Pándaros) is a Trojan aristocrat who appears in stories about the Trojan War.
Articles relating to the theatrical play Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare. At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her father in the Greek camp. Meanwhile, the Greeks endeavour to lessen the pride of Achilles. The tone of the play alternates between bawdy ...
In Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, we first hear of Cressida in Act 1 Scene 1. Pandarus and Troilus are discussing how the latter's unspoken love for the former's niece, Cressida, is preventing him from performing on the battlefield. She first appears in person in the following scene, speaking to her manservant before Pandarus enters.
Diomedes' aristeia ("excellence"—the great deeds of a hero) begins in Book V and continues in Book VI. This is the longest aristeia in the epic. This is the longest aristeia in the epic. Some scholars claim that this part of the epic was originally a separate, independent poem (describing the feats of Diomedes) that Homer adapted and included ...