Troilus and Cressida (Annotated)
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TROILUS AND CRESSIDAIn Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of GreeceThe princes orgulous, their high blood chaf'd,Have to the port of Athens sent their shipsFraught with the ministers and instrumentsOf cruel war. Sixty and nine that woreTheir crownets regal from the Athenian bayPut forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is madeTo ransack Troy, within whose strong immuresThe ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,With wanton Paris sleeps—and that's the quarrel.To Tenedos they come,And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorgeTheir war-like fraughtage. Now on Dardan plainsThe fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitchTheir brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city,Dardan, and Tymbria, Ilias, Chetas, Troien,And Antenorides, with massy staplesAnd corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,Sperr up the sons of Troy.Now expectation, tickling skittish spiritsOn one and other side, Troyan and Greek,Sets all on hazard. And hither am I comeA prologue arm'd, but not in confidenceOf author's pen or actor's voice, but suitedIn like conditions as our argument,To tell you, fair beholders, that our playLeaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,Beginning in the middle; starting thence away,To what may be digested in a play.Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are;Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.This edition includes:- A complete biography of William Shakespeare- Table of contents with directs links to chapters.
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