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Troilus and Criseyde 

Troilus and Cressida

  • 'this woful vers that wepen as I write'
  • 'my purpos is, er that I parte from ye'
  • Courtly love- love that emphasises the nobility and chivalry
  • 'Daves and Dictes'- a 'supposed eye witness to the events
  • ' Lolius' - a fabricated figure he made up
  • Troilus will go ' from woe to joy and then out of joy'
  • 'Greeks strong'
  • Criseyde- described as 'softe'
  • ' Til his eye percede' - 'Til on Criseyde is smot'
  • 'to the port of Athens sent their ships'
  • 'ransack Troy'
  • 'chance of war'
  • 'Weaker than a woman's tear'
  • 'I tell thee I am mad in Cressid's love'- like a typical Petrachan lover- moping about
  • 'I have a kind of self that resides with you but an unkind self that will leave to be another's fool'
  • 'Things won are undone'- she doesn't want to sleep with Troilus yet-fears he will lose interest in her
  • 'virtue'
  • 'young conception in my brain'- Uylsess tricking Achillis to fight
  • 'I am yours'- hypocrite
  • 'dragged through the shameful field'-Hector's body dragged through the streets- dishonourable
  • Troilus describes himself as 'womanish'
  • 'she is not worth what she doth cost'- Helen
  • 'poor our sex'- Cressida blaming her bad behaviour on the fact that she is a woman

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