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Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: W. L. Godshalk

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Troilus and Cressida (Modern)
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- Scene
  1. Prologue
  2. 1.1
  3. 1.2
  4. 1.3
  5. 2.1
  6. 2.2
  7. 2.3
  8. 3.1
  9. 3.2
  10. 3.3
  11. 4.1
  12. 4.2
  13. 4.3
  14. 4.4
  15. 4.5
  16. 5.1
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  18. 5.3
  19. 5.4
  20. 5.5
  21. 5.6
  22. 5.7
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  25. 5.10
  26. 5.11
Troilus and Cressida (Folio 1, 1623)
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  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2
  3. 1.3
  4. 2.1
  5. 2.2
  6. 2.3
  7. 3.1
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  10. 4.1
  11. 4.2
  12. 4.3
  13. 4.4
  14. 4.5
  15. 5.1
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Troilus and Cressida (Quarto 1, 1609)
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A neuer writer, to an euer

reader. Newes.

¶ETernall reader, you haue heere a new

¶play, neuer stal'd with the Stage,

.5neuer clapper-clawd with the palmes

¶of the vulger, and yet passing full of

¶the palme comicall; for it is a birth of

¶your braine, that neuer vnder-tooke

¶any thing commicall, vainely: And

.10were but the vaine names of commedies changde for the

¶titles of Commodities, or of Playes for Pleas; you should

¶see all those grand censors, that now stile them such

¶vanities, flock to them for the maine grace of their

¶grauities: especially this authors Commedies, that are

.15so fram'd to the life, that they serue for the most com-

¶monCommentaries, of all the actions of our liues, shew-

¶ingsuch a dexteritie, and power of witte, that the most

¶displeased with Playes, are pleasd with his Commedies.

¶And all such dull and heauy-witted worldlings, as were

.20neuer capable of the witte of a Commedie, comming by

¶report of them to his representations, haue found that

¶witte there, that they neuer found in them-selues, and

¶haue parted better wittied then they came: feeling an

¶edge of witte set vpon them, more then euer they

.25dreamd they had braine to grinde it on. So much and

¶such sauored salt of witte is in his Commedies, that they

¶seeme (for their height of pleasure) to be borne in that

¶sea that brought forth Venus. Amongst all there is

¶none more witty then this: And had I time I would

.30comment vpon it, though I know it needs not, (for so

¶2

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