The History of Troilus and Cressida

This is a very unusual play. Maybe thats why little known.

• The scene of action is Troy, the time of the siege that glorified it.

• The main reason for the war is to return the prodigal Helen Cuckold Menelaus.
• Yes exactly.
• Trojans defend themselves by doubting the right to hold an unfaithful wife.
• The Greeks besiege, doubting the reason to besiege.

Heroes Agamemnon, Priam, Achilles, Hector, Menelaus, Paris, Elena.