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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 948: Dramatis Personæ

By William Shakespeare

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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

Contents

Scene I. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.

Scene II. Troy. A street.

Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon’s tent.

Scene I. The Grecian camp.

Scene II. Troy. Priam’s palace.

Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.

Scene I. Troy. Priam’s palace.

Scene II. Troy. Pandarus’ orchard.

Scene III. The Greek camp.

Scene I. Troy. A street.

Scene II. Troy. The court of Pandarus’ house.

Scene III. Troy. A street before Pandarus’ house.

Scene IV. Troy. Pandarus’ house.

Scene V. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.

Scene I. The Grecian camp. Before the tent of Achilles.

Scene II. The Grecian camp. Before Calchas’ tent.

Scene III. Troy. Before Priam’s palace.

Scene IV. The plain between Troy and the Grecian camp.

Scene V. Another part of the plain.

Scene VI. Another part of the plain.

Scene VII. Another part of the plain.

Scene VIII. Another part of the plain.

Scene IX. Another part of the plain.

Scene X. Another part of the plain.

Dramatis Personæ

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