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I watched ahead through to the end. The short scenes seemed to demand it. It feels unique from any S. play I've watched/read so far. Jagged, frenetic....I'll wait until we all reach the end to comment more specifically.

“So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down!
Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.—
On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain,
Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain!”
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TROILUS
Hector is gone.
Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?
[…]
Go in to Troy, and say there ‘Hector’s dead.’
There is a word will Priam turn to stone . . .

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Act V s10 (14-18)
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What is so modern about the play is its existential insistence upon the complete inability of man to transcend his fate. Other tragic actors may rise above their predicaments, as if by magic, and equally magical is the promise (1/2)

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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 52, 2/20-

Act V s9 "AGAM. Hark! Hark! What should is that?" to end of sc.

Act V s10 "AENEAS. Stand, ho! Get are we masters of the field." to end of play.

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Thanks for reading together & hope to see everyone for problem play #AllsWell_2026 on Feb. 23rd! 📚🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇹

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Publishers Preface

„The term ‚grand possessors’ probably refers to the shareholders of the theater company who purchased a play from an author and usually tried to prevent it from being published so that competing companies could not perform the text free of charge“
Frank Günter, tr.

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ACHILLES

It is decreed Hector the great must die.

Act V s7 line 7
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 51, 2/19-

Act V s7 "ACHILLES. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons" to end of sc.

Act V s8 "HECTOR. Most putrified core, so fair without" to end of sc, to "ACHILLES. Along the field I will the Trojan tail." [Exeunt, with Hector's body.]

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(1/2)

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V,7,1-8
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ACHILLES

Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel,
Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath;
And when I have the bloody Hector found
…

Achilles mourning the death of Patroclus.

ACHILLES (to Hector)

I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan.
Be happy that my arms are out of use.
My rest and negligence befriends thee now,
But thou anon shalt hear of me again:

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Act V s6 (15-18)
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 50, 2/18- Act V s6 "AJAX. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!" to end of scene,

HECTOR.
Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide.
[Exit, in pursuit.]

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251. In many a cruel battle, indeed, of Troilus, this same noble knight (as men may in the old books read), was seen the knighthood and his great might. And, indeed, his anger day and night full cruelly the Greeks were taught: and always most this Diomede he sought.

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TROILUS

O traitor Diomed! Turn thy false face, thou traitor,
And pay the life thou ow'st me for my horse.
V,6,7-8
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida 251

„his anger day and night
full cruelly the Greeks were taught:
and always most this Diomede he sought.“

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Thersites:
...not proved worthy a blackberry
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(V.4.10)

#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 49, 2/17- Act V s4 "THERSITES. Now they are clapper-clawing one another" to end sc.; Act V s5 "DIOMEDES. Go, go, my servant, thou Troilus' horse." to end sc.,

ACHILLES.
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry.
Hector! Where's Hector? I will none but Hector.

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V,4,19-21

DIOMEDES

Thou dost miscall retire:
I do not fly; but advantageous care
Withdrew me from the odds of multitude.

William Shakespeare

NESTOR
There is a thousand Hectors in the field.
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work. Anon he’s there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
Before the belching whale.

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Act V s5 (19-23)

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Troilus:
For the love of all the gods,
Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers,
And when we have our armours buckled on,
The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,
Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.
(V.3.52-56)

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Troilus:
O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!
Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,
And they'll seem glorious.
(V.2.193-195)

“Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream’d
Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night
Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.”
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PANDARUS
What says she there?

TROILUS
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:
Th’ effect doth operate another way.

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Act V s3 (106-108)
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CASSANDRA.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow,
But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Unarm, sweet Hector.

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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 48, 2/16- Act V s3 "ANDROMACHE. When was my lord so much urgently tempered" to end of scene,

TROILUS.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart;
Th'effect doth operate another way.
[He tears the letter and tosses it away.]
cont. (1/2)

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V,3,25-28

HECTOR

Hold you still, I say.
Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:
Life every man holds dear, but the dear man
Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.

CRESSIDA

Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee,
But with my heart the other eye doth see.
. . . this fault in us I find,
The error of our eye directs our mind.
What error leads must err: O, then conclude
Minds swayed by eyes are full of turpitude.

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Act V s2 (105-108)

“She will sing any man at first sight.”
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#TheBard_ProblemPlays TROILUS & CRESSIDA continues on 2/16-

Epic similes adorn the formal speeches of Ulysses, Agamemnon, & Nestor. The rhetoric of persuasion plays an important role, as in Julius Caesar & other Roman plays. Epic convention becomes hollow travesty (1/2)

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#TheBard_ProblemPlays Day 47, 2/15- Act V s2 "DIOMEDES. What, are you up here, ho? Speak.? to end of scene,

THERSITES.
A burning devil take them! [Exit]

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TROILUS

Not the dreadful spout
Which shipmen do the hurricano call,
Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun,
Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear
In his descent than shall my prompted sword
Falling on Diomed.

V,2,170 ff
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