Guide Note:Troilus and Cressida is a classic tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Fast Facts:
- Written: 1602
- Primary source: Troilus and Criseyde - Chaucer
- Entered into Stationers' Register: February 7, 1603 by bookseller and printer James Roberts
- Simultaneously categorized as a comedy and a tragedy
- No recorded performance during Shakespeare's lifetime or between 1734 and 1898
- Gained popularity during the 1960s as discontent over the Vietnam War grew
- Ran for 14 performances on Broadway in 1956-1957
- Main Characters:
- Troilus
- Cressida
- Diomedes
- Nestor
- Ulysses
- Achilles
- Hector
- Famous Quotes:
- Words pay no debts. 3.2
- Idol of idiot worshippers! 5.1
- I have had my labour for my travail. 1.1
- He has not so much brain as ear-wax. 5.1
- Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honour bright. 3.3
- Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. 5.3
- The baby figure of the giant mass of things to come. 1.3