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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9]

Chapter 54: FOOTNOTES:
By William Shakespeare
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The volume collects four dramatic works that range from a historical drama focused on court politics and questions of succession to a skeptical treatment of love and honor amid a prolonged war. Another play examines pride, civic unrest, and the fraught relationship between a celebrated public figure and the populace, ending in alienation and political catastrophe. A final piece delivers a brutal revenge tragedy where cycles of atrocity and retaliation escalate into extreme violence. The edition pairs the plays with scholarly notes and textual commentary that document variant readings and editorial decisions.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[D].

Priam, king of Troy.
Hector, his sons.
Troilus,
Paris,
Deiphobus,
Helenus,
Margarelon, a bastard son of Priam[E].
Æneas, Trojan commanders.
Antenor,
Calchas, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks.
Pandarus, uncle to Cressida.
Agamemnon, the Grecian general.
Menelaus, his brother.
Achilles, Grecian commanders.
Ajax,
Ulysses,
Nestor,
Diomedes,
Patroclus,
Thersites, a deformed and scurrilous Grecian.
Alexander, servant to Cressida[E].
Servant to Troilus[E].
Servant to Paris.
Servant to Diomedes.
Helen, wife to Menelaus.
Andromache, wife to Hector.
Cassandra, daughter to Priam; a prophetess[E].
Cressida, daughter to Calchas.
Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants.

Scene: Troy, and the Grecian camp.

[D] Dramatis Personæ.] First given, imperfectly, by Rowe.

[E] Added by Theobald.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.[924]

FOOTNOTES:

[924] Troilus and Cressida.] See note (I).