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''Troilus and Cressida'' is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to the characters. However, several characteristic elements of the play (the most notable being its constant questioning of intrinsic values such as hierarchy, honour and love) have often been viewed as distinctly "modern," as in the following remarks on the play by author and literary scholar Joyce Carol Oates:
==Characters== The Trojans * Priam, King of Troy * Priam's children: Cassandra (a prophetess), Hector, Troilus, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, and Margareton (bastard) * Andromache, Hector's wife * Aeneas, a commander and leader * Antenor, another commander * Calchas, a Trojan priest who is taking part with the Greeks * Cressida, Calchas's daughter * Alexander, servant to Cressida * Pandarus, Cressida's uncle The Greeks * Agamemnon, King of the Greeks and leader of the Greek invasion * Achilles, prince * Ajax, prince * Diomedes, prince * Nestor, wise and talkative prince * Ulysses, King of Ithaca (In some editions, the character is referred to as Odysseus.) * Menelaus, King of Sparta, brother to Agamemnon * Helen, wife to Menelaus, living with Paris * Thersites, a deformed and scurrilous low-class "fool" * Patroclus, friend of Achilles 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Troilus and Cressida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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