Troilus and Cressida: Difference between revisions

* [[Character Filibuster]]: If Ulysses is speaking, there's a good chance it's going to be a two-page speech.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Could be considered this for ''[[The Iliad]].'' While the original is full to bursting with great Greek heroes doing great deeds, the play is a portrait of two armies mired in decadence, lechery, illness, violence, and corruption, where even young love turns sour and the final image is a syphilitic Pandarus promising to [[Squick|"bequeath you my diseases."]]

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Ajax, whose lines tend to come in the form of short, uncomplicated prose exclamations. He would rather resort to violence than speech. Thersites mocks him mercilessly for it in their first scene.

{{quote|'''Thersites:''' Thou sodden-witted lord, though hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an asinico may tutor thee. Thou scurvy-valiant ass, thou art here but to thrash Trojans, and thou art bought and sold among those of any wit like a barbarian slave.}}

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