Troilus and Cressida E-Book

William Shakespeare

• Herausgeber: William Shakespeare
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. However, several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly "modern," as in the following remarks on the play by author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates: Troilus and Cressida, that most vexing and ambiguous of Shakespeare's plays, strikes the modern reader as a contemporary document—its investigation of numerous infidelities, its criticism of tragic pretensions, above all, its implicit debate between what is essential in human life and what is only existential are themes of the twentieth century. ... This is tragedy of a special sort—the "tragedy" the basis of which is the impossibility of conventional tragedy. (font: Wikipedia)

Leseprobe

Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare

Table of Contents

Characters of the Play

Prologue

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.

Characters of the Play

Priam, King of Troy.

His sons: Hector, Troilus, Paris, Deiphobus and Helenus.

Margarelon, a bastard son of Priam.

Trojan commanders: Aeneas and 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 and 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