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Troilus| In Greek mythology, the youngest son of Hecuba and Priam, King of Troy, who was killed in battle or taken captive by Achilles. In medieval romance he is the lover of Briseis, or Cressida. |
| Chaucer's narrative poem Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida are derived from the medieval pseudo-Homeric tale of faithless love. |
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Benoit de Sainte-Maure
Chaucer, Geoffrey
courtly love
Davies, Arthur
Davies, Howard
Elliott, Denholm
Foster, Lawrence
Henryson, Robert
Hickox, Richard
Joseph of Exeter
| Kraus, Otakar
Lewis, Richard
Luxon, Benjamin
Poel, William
problem plays, Shakespeare's
Sargent, Malcolm
Tonson, Jacob
Troilus and Cressida
Walton, William Turner
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| The Achaeans next desire to return home, but are restrained by Achilles, who afterwards drives off the cattle of Aeneas, and sacks Lyrnessus and Pedasus and many of the neighbouring cities, and kills Troilus. - Love's Labour's Lost; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Comedy of Errors; Merchant of Venice; Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; All's Well that Ends Well; Merry Wives of Windsor; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; Twelfth Night; Troilus and Cressida; Measure for Measure; Pericles; Cymbeline; The Tempest; A Winter's Tale. Miserable man that I am, I have had the bravest sons in all Troy--noble Nestor, Troilus the dauntless charioteer, and Hector who was a god among men, so that one would have thought he was son to an immortal--yet there is not one of them left. |