Tag: Troilus And Cressida

Troilus and Cressida is a lesser-known play by Shakespeare influenced by Grecian context and features characters from Greek Mythology. It centres and draws on the Trojan war.” Inside the walls of Troy Prince Troilus, Kasper Hilton-Hille tells Pandarus he loves Cressida her niece”. In a sequence of match making events by Pandarus the deed was done made simple by the fact, that Cressida confessed she had secretly betrothed herself to Troilus. In act of bad luck Cressida’s father, Calchas a defector to the Greek camp has offered her to the Greeks in a twist that changes everything for the young lovers. The heart of the story is centred around the two camps; the Greek and Trojan soldiers lying idle in their ways and flouncing their combat battle talk to wage war with each other. The Trojan ...