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Troilus and Cressida
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...Troilus and Cressida (troi´ləs, krĕs´Ĭdə), a medieval...characters in Greek legend. Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam...for a Trojan prisoner of war, Cressida swore to be faithful to Troilus, but then deceived him with......
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Cressida (in medieval romance)
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...Cressida, in medieval romance: see Troilus and Cressida....
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
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......the Astrolabe, written for his son Lewis; and Troilus and Criseyde, based on Boccaccio's Filostrato...great love poems in the English language (see Troilus and Cressida). In Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer perfected the seven-line stanza......
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Shakespeare's Plays ( (table))
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......Falstaff Mrs. Page Mr. Ford Comedy Troilus and Cressida 1601 1609 Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (c.1386); William...of the Historyes of Troye (1474) Troilus Ulysses Pandarus Cressida Comedy All's Well That Ends Well......
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Chryseis
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......the Greek army; when Agamemnon released Chryseis, he took Briseis from Achilles and instigated the quarrel between them. In later times, her story was retold by Chaucer in Troilus and Crisyde and Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida....
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Boccaccio, Giovanni
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......vernacular prose romance. Other early works include the poem Filostrato, which infused the legendary story of Troilus and Cressida with the atmosphere of Neapolitan court life; the Teseide, a poem in the style of the Aeneid; the psychological......
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Benoît de Sainte-More
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......romance in 30,000 verses. It became a primary source of medieval versions of the Trojan legend, notably the story of Troilus and Cressida. At the order of Henry II of England, Benoît also wrote a rhymed Chronique des ducs de Normandie....
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Pandarus
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......Iliad) he broke the truce by wounding Menelaus and soon after was killed by Diomed. In the medieval romance of Troilus and Cressida, Pandarus is the name of the lascivious intermediary between the lovers. The word pander is derived from the latter......
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Shakespeare, William
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......Queen Elizabeth's request for another play including Falstaff, it is not thematically typical of the period), Troilus and Cressida,All's Well That Ends Well,Measure for Measure,Othello,King Lear,Macbeth,Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus......
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Walton, Sir William Turner
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......composed musical scores are Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1947), and Richard III (1954). Walton wrote the opera Troilus and Cressida in 1954 and the one-act extravaganza The Bear in 1967. He was knighted in 1951. See The Selected Letters of......