Shakespeare's Wisest Play - Troilus and Cressida

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Troilus and Cressida

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Dramatis Personae.
- Prologue.
- Act 1
  - Scene 1. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
  - Scene 2. The Same. A street.
  - Scene 3. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.
- Act 2
  - Scene 1. A part of the Grecian camp.
  - Scene 2. Troy. A room in Priam's palace.
  - Scene 3. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
- Act 3
  - Scene 1. Troy. Priam's palace.
  - Scene 2. The same. Pandarus' orchard.
  - Scene 3. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
- Act 4
  - Scene 1. Troy. A street.
  - Scene 2. The same. Court of Pandarus' house.
  - Scene 3. The same. Street before Pandarus' house.
  - Scene 4. The same. Pandarus' house.
  - Scene 5. The Grecian camp. Lists set out.
- Act 5
  - Scene 1. The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.
  - Scene 2. The same. Before Calchas' tent.
  - Scene 3. Troy. Before Priam's palace.
  - Scene 4. Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp.
  - Scene 5. Another part of the plains.
  - Scene 6. Another part of the plains.
  - Scene 7. Another part of the plains.
  - Scene 8. Another part of the plains.
  - Scene 9. Another part of the plains.
  - Scene 10. Another part of the plains.

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Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision. Nature craves
All dues be render'd to their owners.
Troilus and Cressida (2.2), Hector

The editors of the First Folio originally scheduled the play to be included in the section containing the tragedies. Due to a conflict with the printer, however, Troilus and Cressida was published after the rest of the tragedies, and thus was placed in between the histories and the tragedies, after Henry VIII and before Coriolanus. Although Troilus and Cressida is not included in the First Folio's table of contents, the text is in the First Folio, bringing the total of plays in the Folio to thirty-six. Read on ...

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