Amid the endless siege of Troy, the lovers Troilus and Cressida pledge fidelity only for Cressida to be traded to the Greek camp and drift to a new lover, while Achilles sulks and Hector falls.
Books that mention Troilus and Cressida (8)
The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper: “That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy, doting, foolish young knave in his helm. --Troilus and Cressida.”
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: “…stage were revived, and the subject absolutely barred, the only result would be that Antony and Cleopatra, Othello (because of the Bianca episode), Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, La Dame aux Camellias, The Profligate, The Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Notorious…”
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green: “The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come." --Troilus and Cressida.”
Old Mortality by Walter Scott: “And look how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain--so many hollow factions. Troilus and Cressida.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “the hell of time of King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “from Homer's Odyssey through Dame's Inferno on to Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida”
Artful by Ali Smith: “Graham Greene on Shakespeare's felicity of form... a throwaway moment from Troilus and Cressida”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “His Seven Books of the Iliades was a source for Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida”