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Pride and Defeat-- Troilus and Cressida takes place in the seventh year of the Trojan War. The Trojan prince Troilus falls in love with Calchas' daughter Cressida. The two secretly marry, and predictably, tragedy quickly follows. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is widely regarded as the greatest playwright in the English language and one of the most influential writers in world literature. His plays-including Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Romeo and Juliet-have shaped dramatic literature for more than four centuries. Shakespeare's works range from tragedy and comedy to historical drama and romance, and they continue to be studied, performed, and adapted around the world. Troilus and Cressida stands as one of his most unusual plays, offering a skeptical and often satirical view of the heroic ideals associated with the Trojan War.

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