The History of Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Contents

ACT I

• SCENE I. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
• SCENE II. The Same. A street.
• SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.

ACT II

• SCENE I. A part of the Grecian camp.
• SCENE II. Troy. A room in Priam's palace.
• SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.

ACT III

• SCENE I. Troy. Priam's palace.
• SCENE II. The same. Pandarus' orchard.
• SCENE III. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.

ACT IV

• SCENE I. Troy. A street.
• SCENE II. The same. Court of Pandarus' house.
• SCENE III. The same. Street before Pandarus' house.
• SCENE IV. The same. Pandarus' house.
• SCENE V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.

ACT V

• SCENE I. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
• SCENE II. The same. Before Calchas' tent.
• SCENE III. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
• SCENE IV. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp.
• SCENE V. Another part of the plains.
• SCENE VI. Another part of the plains.
• SCENE VII. Another part of the plains.
• SCENE VIII. Another part of the plains.
• SCENE IX. Another part of the plains.
• SCENE X. Another part of the plains.

Main actors

• PRIAM, king of Troy.
• MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam.
• CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks.
• PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida.
• AGAMEMNON, the Grecian general.
• MENELAUS, his brother.
• THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Grecian.
• 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.

Trojan commanders.

• AENEAS
• ANTENOR

Grecian princes.

• ACHILLES
• AJAX
• ULYSSES
• NESTOR
• DIOMEDES
• PATROCLUS

his sons.

• HECTOR
• TROILUS
• PARIS
• DEIPHOBUS
• HELENUS

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