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Troilus and Cressida

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noun

  1. a satiric comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.


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"In the house are these two beautiful stained glass panels with quotes from Shakespeare on them," she said of the twin windows inscribed with lines from "Troilus and Cressida" and "Richard II."

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2018

This autumn's RSC production of Troilus and Cressida - Barton's favourite play - will be dedicated to him.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2018

In Troilus and Cressida, the strangely comic character Thersites announces Ajax by saying “for, whosoever you take him to be, he is Ajax.”

From Time • Sep. 20, 2013

And if all that fails – Troilus and Cressida in Maori?

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

He would have us believe that the parts embodying the Troilus and Cressida story were written in Shakespeare's earliest period, those concerning Hector in his middle period, and the Ajax parts in the last.

From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various