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3,557 | 1790_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at the Greek camp, a bunch of commanders and soldiers hang out in front of Agamemnon's tent. Agamemnon tries to give his guys a pep talk about how, even though the Greeks have come up "short" after seven loooooong years of battle, they shouldn't be bummed because the gods are just trying to test them. After all, g... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 3.\nThe Grecian camp. Before AGAMEMNON'S tent",
"Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, MENELAUS, and\nothers",
"AGAMEMNON. Princes,\n What grief hath set these jaundies o'er your cheeks? The ample proposition that hope makes\n In all designs begun on earth below\n Fails in t... |
3,558 | 1790_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Elsewhere in the Greek camp, Ajax yells at his slave Thersites, who ignores him and talks smack about what it would be like if Agamemnon had a bunch of nasty, oozing boils and skin ulcers. Ajax is enraged when his slave blows him off. He asks him if he's deaf and calls him a bunch of names like "dog," "b****-wolf's son... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp",
"Enter Ajax and THERSITES",
"AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. Agamemnon-how if he had boils full, an over, generally? AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. And those boils did run-say so. Did not the general run then? Were not that a botchy core? AJAX. Dog! THERSITES. Then there would com... |
3,559 | 1790_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Troy, Priam and his sons talk about whether or not they should just give Helen back to the Greeks so they can end the war that's cost so much money and so many Greek lives. Gee, that actually sounds ... sensible. So, obviously it's not going to happen. Hector thinks they should let her go. He argues that every "soul... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 2.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS",
"PRIAM. After so many hours, lives, speeches, spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: 'Deliver Helen, and all damage else- As honour, loss of time, travail, expense, Wounds, friends, and what else dear that... |
3,560 | 1790_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Back at the Greek camp, Thersites rants and raves about how much he hates that "elephant Ajax." He rags on Achilles, too, and asks the gods to destroy the entire Greek army. Better yet, he says, he wishes the whole Greek army would get the "Neapolitan bone-ache." Brain Snack: What the heck's the "Neapolitan bone-ache"?... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 3.\nThe Grecian camp. Before the tent of ACHILLES",
"Enter THERSITES, solus",
"THERSITES. How now, Thersites! What, lost in the labyrinth of thy\n fury? Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He beats me, and I\n rail at him. O worthy satisfaction! Would it were otherwise: that\n I could... |
3,561 | 1790_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Priam's palace, Pandarus chats with a servant while he waits to see Paris. The servant says that Paris is relaxing and listening to some music with "the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's invisible soul." Pandarus is all "whatever, have you seen my niece Cressida? She's way hotter than Helen." Now Paris... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 1.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Music sounds within. Enter PANDARUS and a SERVANT",
"PANDARUS. Friend, you-pray you, a word. Do you not follow the young\n Lord Paris? SERVANT. Ay, sir, when he goes before me. PANDARUS. You depend upon him, I mean? SERVANT. Sir, I do depend upon the lord. PANDARUS... |
3,562 | 1790_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pandarus arrives up at Calchas' garden, where Troilus has been pacing around waiting for him to show up so Pandarus can escort him to Cressida's bedroom. Troilus gets chatty when he's nervous, so he compares Pandarus to "Charon." You know, the infamous ferryman who gives passengers a lift across the River Styx. Which, ... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 2.\nTroy. PANDARUS' orchard",
"Enter PANDARUS and TROILUS' BOY, meeting",
"PANDARUS. How now! Where's thy master? At my cousin Cressida's?\n BOY. No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.",
"Enter TROILUS",
"PANDARUS. O, here he comes. How now, how now! TROILUS. Sirrah, walk off. Ex... |
3,563 | 1790_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Over at the Greek camp, Cressida's dad Calchas reminds everyone that he risked a lot when he betrayed the Trojans and came over to their side. In return, he wants them to "exchange" one of their Trojan prisoners for Cressida so he can have a father-daughter reunion. Sure, Agamemnon says. He sends Diomedes off to make t... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 3.\nThe Greek camp",
"Flourish. Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,\nMENELAUS, and CALCHAS",
"CALCHAS. Now, Princes, for the service I have done,\n Th' advantage of the time prompts me aloud\n To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind\n That, through the sight I bear ... |
3,564 | 1790_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a street in Troy, Aeneas meets up with Paris and his posse of Trojan leaders, along with Diomedes, a Greek leader. Aeneas greets Paris by saying something like "Hey, if I had a girl like Helen in my bed, I wouldn't be out here prowling the streets of Troy." Then Aeneas turns to the Greek Diomedes, and the two guys e... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 1.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter, at one side, AENEAS, and servant with a torch; at another,\nPARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES the Grecian, and others, with\ntorches",
"PARIS. See, ho! Who is that there? DEIPHOBUS. It is the Lord Aeneas. AENEAS. Is the Prince there in person? Had I so good occasion... |
3,565 | 1790_act_4,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Calchas' house, Troilus and Cressida stand at the gate and say goodbye after having spent the night together. They're having a kind of "You hang up." "No, you hang up" kind of conversation. Then Pandarus butts in and destroys all the romance of the moment by asking where all the "maidenheads" have gone. Cressida bic... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 2.\nTroy. The court of PANDARUS' house",
"Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA",
"TROILUS. Dear, trouble not yourself; the morn is cold. CRESSIDA. Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down;\n He shall unbolt the gates. TROILUS. Trouble him not;\n To bed, to bed! Sleep kill those pretty eyes,\n ... |
3,566 | 1790_act_4,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In front of Calchas' house, Paris tells Troilus that he has to go inside and get Cressida so they can trade her to the Greeks. He's sorry for Troilus but there's nothing he can do about it. | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 3.\nTroy. A street before PANDARUS' house",
"Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, and DIOMEDES",
"PARIS. It is great morning; and the hour prefix'd\n For her delivery to this valiant Greek\n Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,\n Tell you the lady what she is to do\n ... |
3,567 | 1790_act_4,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inside the house, Pandarus tries to calm down Cressida.Troilus enters and breaks the bad news. He promises to love her forever as he holds her in his arms. Troilus and Cressida exchange love tokens. He gives her a "sleeve" and she gives him a glove. As our lovebirds say goodbye, Troilus keeps asking Cressida to be fait... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 4.\nTroy. PANDARUS' house",
"Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA",
"PANDARUS. Be moderate, be moderate.\n CRESSIDA. Why tell you me of moderation?\n The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,\n And violenteth in a sense as strong\n As that which causeth it. How can I moderate it?\n If I... |
3,568 | 1790_act_4,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cut to the Greek camp, which looks like an ancient version of a Las Vegas boxing ring... except it's full of armor and other combat equipment instead of boxing gloves and stuff. Also, the lighting isn't quite as good. Ajax is getting ready to go toe-to-toe with Hector, when Diomedes shows up with Cressida. The Greeks g... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 5.\nThe Grecian camp. Lists set out",
"Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS, MENELAUS,\nULYSSES, NESTOR, and others",
"AGAMEMNON. Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,\n Anticipating time with starting courage.\n Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,\n Thou dread... |
3,569 | 1790_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Achilles chills with Patroclus and talks trash about how he's going to make mincemeat out of Hector tomorrow. Then Thersites shows up at the Greek camp with a letter from Troy. Thersites and Achilles bag on each other, which, of course. Did you expect anything else? Patroclus tries to chime in but Thersites tells him t... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp. Before the tent of ACHILLES",
"Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS",
"ACHILLES. I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,\n Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.\n Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.\n PATROCLUS. Here comes Thersites.",
"Enter THERSITES"... |
3,570 | 1790_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diomedes shows up at the tent looking for Cressida. Calchas invites him inside as Troilus and Ulysses watch from a distance and Thersites creeps up behind them to see what happens. Cressida is all coy with Diomedes, calling him her "sweet guardian" and her "sweet honey Greek" and begging him not to "tempt" her as he wh... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 2.\nThe Grecian camp. Before CALCHAS' tent",
"Enter DIOMEDES",
"DIOMEDES. What, are you up here, ho? Speak.\n CALCHAS. [Within] Who calls?\n DIOMEDES. Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?\n CALCHAS. [Within] She comes to you.",
"Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance; after them... |
3,571 | 1790_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, in Troy, Hector's wife Andromache begs her husband not to fight today. Hector says something horrible like, "Woman, you're asking for it with all this nagging." We find out that Andromache has been having some "ominous" dreams. Speaking of female premonitions, here's crazy Cassandra. Hector's wife and... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 3.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE",
"ANDROMACHE. When was my lord so much ungently temper'd\n To stop his ears against admonishment?\n Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.\n HECTOR. You train me to offend you; get you in.\n By all the everlasting gods, I'll... |
3,572 | 1790_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cut to the battlefield, where Thersites watches everything go down while offering his nasty commentary on the action. Thersites tells us that Diomedes is running around the battlefield with Troilus's "sleeve" on his helmet. While he's at it, he rags on Nestor, Ulysses, Ajax, and Achilles. Troilus and Hector run across ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 4.\nThe plain between Troy and the Grecian camp",
"Enter THERSITES. Excursions",
"THERSITES. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look\n on. That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same\n scurvy doting foolish young knave's sleeve of Troy there in his\n helm.... |
3,573 | 1790_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diomedes sends his servant with a message to Cressida about how he just beat down her ex-boyfriend. He also sends along Troilus's horse as proof that he's now Cressida's "knight" in shining armor. Agamemnon appears and lists all the Greeks who have been killed, including Achilles' lover, Patroclus. He and Diomedes run ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 5.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter DIOMEDES and A SERVANT",
"DIOMEDES. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;\n Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid.\n Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;\n Tell her I have chastis'd the amorous Troyan,\n And am her knight by proof... |
3,574 | 1790_act_5,_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ajax and Diomedes run around calling out for Troilus to show his face. So they can smash it in. They bicker about who gets to fight him, until Troilus gets fed up and says that he'll take them both on at the same time.Seriously? Maybe not a good move, dude. They fight their way off the stage as Achilles and Hector show... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 6.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter AJAX",
"AJAX. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head.",
"Enter DIOMEDES",
"DIOMEDES. Troilus, I say! Where's Troilus?\n AJAX. What wouldst thou?\n DIOMEDES. I would correct him.\n AJAX. Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office\n Ere tha... |
3,575 | 1790_act_5,_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Achilles shows up with his gang. He gives them detailed instructions about how he wants them to surround Hector and then "impale him" with their weapons. Next, Menelaus and Paris battle their way across the stage. Thersites follows and yells out stuff like "Hey, it's the 'cuckold' and 'the cuckold maker' going at it. G... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 7.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons",
"ACHILLES. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;\n Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel;\n Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath;\n And when I have the bloody Hector found,\n Empale him with your weapons... |
3,576 | 1790_act_5,_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When we catch up with Hector, he's standing over the formerly armored Greek soldier, collecting the armor for his trophy case. Hector notices that underneath all that "goodly armor," the guy is just a "putrefied core," a.k.a. rotting flesh. Next, Hector decides to take a little breather from the battle. He removes his ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 8.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter HECTOR",
"HECTOR. Most putrified core so fair without,\n Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.\n Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:\n Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death!\n [Disarms]",
"Enter ACHILLES and his Myrm... |
3,577 | 1790_act_5,_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A bunch of soldiers announce to the Greek leaders that Achilles has killed the Trojan Hector. Ajax says that Hector was a "good" man and that his death should be "bragless." Agamemnon says if Hector's dead, then Troy is totally about to fall. | [
"ACT V. SCENE 9.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Sound retreat. Shout. Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR,\nDIOMEDES, and the rest, marching",
"AGAMEMNON. Hark! hark! what shout is this?\n NESTOR. Peace, drums!\n SOLDIERS. [Within] Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain. Achilles!\n DIOMEDES. The bruit is Hec... |
3,578 | 1790_act_5,_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Troilus tells Aeneas, Hector really is dead. Not only that, but a horse is dragging his body around the "shameful field." Troilus prays to the gods and asks for them to "smile at Troy." He says that when they go back home and tell Hector's family about his death, Priam will cry himself to "stone" and all of Troy wil... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 10.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, and DEIPHOBUS",
"AENEAS. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field.\n Never go home; here starve we out the night.",
"Enter TROILUS",
"TROILUS. Hector is slain. ALL. Hector! The gods forbid! TROILUS. He's dead, and at the murd... |
3,579 | 1790_act_1,_scenes_1-2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The play opens with the entrance of the Prologue, an actor dressed as a soldier, who gives us the background to the story, which takes place during the Trojan War. Immortalized in Greek mythology and Homer's Iliad, the war occurs because a Trojan prince, Paris, steals the beautiful Helen from her husband, King Menelaus... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS",
"TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again. Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within? Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! PANDARUS.... |
3,557 | 1790_act_i,_scene_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, in the Greek camp, the great general and king Agamemnon is conversing with his lieutenants and fellow kings. He asks why they seem so glum and downcast--for although their seven-year siege of Troy has met with little success so far, they should welcome the adversity that the long war represents, since only i... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 3.\nThe Grecian camp. Before AGAMEMNON'S tent",
"Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, MENELAUS, and\nothers",
"AGAMEMNON. Princes,\n What grief hath set these jaundies o'er your cheeks? The ample proposition that hope makes\n In all designs begun on earth below\n Fails in t... |
3,552 | 1790_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the Greek camp, Ajax summons his slave, Thersites, and orders him to find out the nature of the proclamation that has just been posted. Thersites, a foul-mouthed ruffian, refuses to obey and instead curses his master and the Greeks with equal vigor, provoking Ajax to beat him. Achilles and Patroclus come upon them, ... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp",
"Enter Ajax and THERSITES",
"AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. Agamemnon-how if he had boils full, an over, generally? AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. And those boils did run-say so. Did not the general run then? Were not that a botchy core? AJAX. Dog! THERSITES. Then there would com... |
3,553 | 1790_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In Troy, Pandarus converses with a servant while he waits to speak with Paris and Helen. When they come in, he compliments Helen profusely, and asks her to excuse Troilus if Priam asks about him at dinner that night. Paris and Helen ask where Troilus will be dining, and Pandarus refuses to tell him--but they both guess... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 1.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Music sounds within. Enter PANDARUS and a SERVANT",
"PANDARUS. Friend, you-pray you, a word. Do you not follow the young\n Lord Paris? SERVANT. Ay, sir, when he goes before me. PANDARUS. You depend upon him, I mean? SERVANT. Sir, I do depend upon the lord. PANDARUS... |
3,580 | 1790_act_4,_scenes_1-4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diomedes comes to Troy to make the exchange of Antenor for Cressida, and he is greeted heartily by Aeneas and Paris. Aeneas goes to fetch Cressida, remarking that this exchange will deal a heavy blow to Troilus; Paris concurs, but says regretfully that they have no choice: "the bitter disposition of the time / will hav... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 1.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter, at one side, AENEAS, and servant with a torch; at another,\nPARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES the Grecian, and others, with\ntorches",
"PARIS. See, ho! Who is that there? DEIPHOBUS. It is the Lord Aeneas. AENEAS. Is the Prince there in person? Had I so good occasion... |
3,581 | 1790_act_5,_scenes_2-10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Calchas's tent, Diomedes calls to Cressida. Her father fetches her, while Troilus and Ulysses watch from one hiding place and Thersites from another. With Thersites's profanity and Troilus's shock providing a counterpoint, Diomedes woos Cressida, who behaves reluctantly but coyly toward his advances, fending him off... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 2.\nThe Grecian camp. Before CALCHAS' tent",
"Enter DIOMEDES",
"DIOMEDES. What, are you up here, ho? Speak.\n CALCHAS. [Within] Who calls?\n DIOMEDES. Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?\n CALCHAS. [Within] She comes to you.",
"Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance; after them... |
3,556 | 1790_prologue | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Prologue is an armored soldier, who places the action in the Trojan War and tells the reader/audience of the context of the 2play. Here, the audience learns of the 69 Greek princes, who have sent ships laden with ministers and instruments of War to recapture Helen wife of Greek king Menelaus who has run away with P... | [
"PROLOGUE\n PROLOGUE",
"In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece\n The princes orgillous, their high blood chaf'd,\n Have to the port of Athens sent their ships\n Fraught with the ministers and instruments\n Of cruel war. Sixty and nine that wore\n Their crownets r... |
3,550 | 1790_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Troilus wonders why he should go to War outside the walls of Troy when a cruel battle is being fought within him-self. He laments his weakness, I am weaker than a womans tear - a weakness caused, he says, by his long wait for the love of Cressida. He is so entranced by Cressida that in trying to conceal his love he fea... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 1.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS",
"TROILUS. Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again. Why should I war without the walls of Troy That find such cruel battle here within? Each Troyan that is master of his heart, Let him to field; Troilus, alas, hath none! PANDARUS.... |
3,551 | 1790_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cressidas servant Alexander tells her that Queen Hecuba and Helen have just gone up to the Eastern tower to get a view of the battle. Hector, who is usually a patient man, snapped at his wife, Andromache and hit his armory and set out for the battlefield even before sunrise. Alexander tells Cressida that Hector was esp... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 2.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter CRESSIDA and her man ALEXANDER",
"CRESSIDA. Who were those went by? ALEXANDER. Queen Hecuba and Helen. CRESSIDA. And whither go they? ALEXANDER. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To see the battle. Hector, whose patience Is as a vir... |
3,557 | 1790_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Addressing Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Menelaus and some others, Agamemnon says that the Greek hopes had been belied, and that they had been unable to achieve what they had hoped to achieve - after a seven-year long siege, Troys walls were still standing. Their every action had been thwarted, he notes but then adds that... | [
"ACT I. SCENE 3.\nThe Grecian camp. Before AGAMEMNON'S tent",
"Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, MENELAUS, and\nothers",
"AGAMEMNON. Princes,\n What grief hath set these jaundies o'er your cheeks? The ample proposition that hope makes\n In all designs begun on earth below\n Fails in t... |
3,558 | 1790_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Ajax and Thersites enter. Thersites is railing at Agamemnon, wondering how he would be if he had running sores on his body. He puns that if he did, he would have a botchy core - a carbuncular boil or a lumpy heart. The punning Thersites says that if Agamemnon did have running boils then that would mean that he had some... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp",
"Enter Ajax and THERSITES",
"AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. Agamemnon-how if he had boils full, an over, generally? AJAX. Thersites! THERSITES. And those boils did run-say so. Did not the general run then? Were not that a botchy core? AJAX. Dog! THERSITES. Then there would com... |
3,559 | 1790_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Priam, Hector, Troilus, Paris and Helenus enter. Priam reports a diplomatic exchange and says that after so many hours, lives and speeches had been spent, Nestor has reiterated that if Helen was delivered to the Greeks. All other damages - honor, loss of time, travails, expense, wounds, lost friends and whatever else t... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 2.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS",
"PRIAM. After so many hours, lives, speeches, spent, Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: 'Deliver Helen, and all damage else- As honour, loss of time, travail, expense, Wounds, friends, and what else dear that... |
3,560 | 1790_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thersites enters on his own. He is still railing about the beating he got from Ajax. He wishes he could be the one to beat Ajax while the latter railed. He says that hell learn to raise devils unless he becomes capable of seeing some issue of his spiteful execrations. Then he dwells on Achilles whom he calls a maker of... | [
"ACT II. SCENE 3.\nThe Grecian camp. Before the tent of ACHILLES",
"Enter THERSITES, solus",
"THERSITES. How now, Thersites! What, lost in the labyrinth of thy\n fury? Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He beats me, and I\n rail at him. O worthy satisfaction! Would it were otherwise: that\n I could... |
3,561 | 1790_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pandarus and a servant enter. The servant tells Pandarus that the music that is being played within is being played at the request of Paris who is out with the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, loves visible soul. Pandarus takes this to refer to his cousin Cressida but the servant is actually talking of Helen. P... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 1.\nTroy. PRIAM'S palace",
"Music sounds within. Enter PANDARUS and a SERVANT",
"PANDARUS. Friend, you-pray you, a word. Do you not follow the young\n Lord Paris? SERVANT. Ay, sir, when he goes before me. PANDARUS. You depend upon him, I mean? SERVANT. Sir, I do depend upon the lord. PANDARUS... |
3,562 | 1790_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Pandarus and Troilus man meet. The man tells Pandarus that Troilus is waiting for him to conduct him to Cressidas. Troilus enters and the servant is dismissed. When asked if he has met Cressida yet, Troilus answers in negative. Pandarus answers without frills - his business-like literalism is in strong contrast to Troi... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 2.\nTroy. PANDARUS' orchard",
"Enter PANDARUS and TROILUS' BOY, meeting",
"PANDARUS. How now! Where's thy master? At my cousin Cressida's?\n BOY. No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.",
"Enter TROILUS",
"PANDARUS. O, here he comes. How now, how now! TROILUS. Sirrah, walk off. Ex... |
3,563 | 1790_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Agamemnon, Ulysses, Diomedes, Nestor, Menelaus, Ajax and Calchas. Calchas says that he wants compensation for the service that he has rendered. He says has abandoned Troy, left his possessions, incurred the name of a traitor, and exposed himself to an uncertain future. He continues that he has left all familiar t... | [
"ACT III. SCENE 3.\nThe Greek camp",
"Flourish. Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,\nMENELAUS, and CALCHAS",
"CALCHAS. Now, Princes, for the service I have done,\n Th' advantage of the time prompts me aloud\n To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind\n That, through the sight I bear ... |
3,564 | 1790_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter on one side Aeneas and a servant with a torch, and Paris, Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes and others with torches on the other side. In this scene, Paris sends Aeneas to accompany Diomedes to Calchas house where Cressida would be given to him in exchange for Antenor. He tells him to rush there ahead of the rest of t... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 1.\nTroy. A street",
"Enter, at one side, AENEAS, and servant with a torch; at another,\nPARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, DIOMEDES the Grecian, and others, with\ntorches",
"PARIS. See, ho! Who is that there? DEIPHOBUS. It is the Lord Aeneas. AENEAS. Is the Prince there in person? Had I so good occasion... |
3,565 | 1790_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Troilus and Cressida enter. The scene begins with the couple alone together after their night of passion. Their lament that the night had been too brief. Troilus says, Beshrew the witch! With venomous wights she stays/As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love /With wings more momentary-swift than thought. Pand... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 2.\nTroy. The court of PANDARUS' house",
"Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA",
"TROILUS. Dear, trouble not yourself; the morn is cold. CRESSIDA. Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down;\n He shall unbolt the gates. TROILUS. Trouble him not;\n To bed, to bed! Sleep kill those pretty eyes,\n ... |
3,566 | 1790_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Paris and Troilus with Aeneas, Deiphobus, Antenor and Diomedes Paris tells Troilus to tell Cressida what she is to do and to hasten her to the purpose. Paris does as he is bid albeit with some reluctance. After he exits, Paris commiserates and says that he knows what it is like to be in love and wishes he could h... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 3.\nTroy. A street before PANDARUS' house",
"Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR, and DIOMEDES",
"PARIS. It is great morning; and the hour prefix'd\n For her delivery to this valiant Greek\n Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,\n Tell you the lady what she is to do\n ... |
3,567 | 1790_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Cressida tells Pandarus of her great grief. The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, /And violenteth in a sense as strong/As that which causeth it: she says. Troilus enters and the couple has a wrenching few minutes before their tearful farewell. When Cressida asks him when theyll meet again, Troilus tells her b... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 4.\nTroy. PANDARUS' house",
"Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA",
"PANDARUS. Be moderate, be moderate.\n CRESSIDA. Why tell you me of moderation?\n The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,\n And violenteth in a sense as strong\n As that which causeth it. How can I moderate it?\n If I... |
3,568 | 1790_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Ajax, Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Ulysses, Nestor and others. Agamemnon tells Ajax to sound his trumpet so that Hector may be brought to combat. Ajax tells his trumpeter to crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe. He tells him to blow until his cheeks are rounded and outswell the North wind. The ... | [
"ACT IV. SCENE 5.\nThe Grecian camp. Lists set out",
"Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS, MENELAUS,\nULYSSES, NESTOR, and others",
"AGAMEMNON. Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,\n Anticipating time with starting courage.\n Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,\n Thou dread... |
3,569 | 1790_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Achilles and Patroclus. Achilles tells Patroclus that he will get Hector drunk that night which will probably make it easier for him to kill him on the following day. Let us feast him to the height he says. Thersites enters. With something that amounts to affection, Achilles calls Thersites a core of envy and a s... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 1.\nThe Grecian camp. Before the tent of ACHILLES",
"Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS",
"ACHILLES. I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,\n Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.\n Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.\n PATROCLUS. Here comes Thersites.",
"Enter THERSITES"... |
3,570 | 1790_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diomedes enters and asks Calchas, Wheres your daughter? Calchas says that she will soon be with him. Troilus and Ulysses enter. Thersites is behind them at a distance. Ulysses cautions Troilus to stand where the torch does not catch him. Cressida enters. Troilus says that Cressida goes out to meet Diomedes. She whisper... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 2.\nThe Grecian camp. Before CALCHAS' tent",
"Enter DIOMEDES",
"DIOMEDES. What, are you up here, ho? Speak.\n CALCHAS. [Within] Who calls?\n DIOMEDES. Diomed. Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?\n CALCHAS. [Within] She comes to you.",
"Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance; after them... |
3,571 | 1790_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Hector and Andromache. Andromache attempts to persuade Hector not to go into battle that day. Hector refuses to listen to her. Andromache says she has had an ominous dream that she is sure will come true that day. Still Hector refuses to listen to his wife Cassandra enters. Andromache enlists her support to persu... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 3.\nTroy. Before PRIAM'S palace",
"Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE",
"ANDROMACHE. When was my lord so much ungently temper'd\n To stop his ears against admonishment?\n Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.\n HECTOR. You train me to offend you; get you in.\n By all the everlasting gods, I'll... |
3,572 | 1790_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thersites enters. He comments that the warriors are now giving each other a drubbing. He says he will look on, and notes that Diomedes is wearing Troilus sleeve in his helm. He is eager to see them meet so that the same young Trojan ass, that loves the whore there might send Diomedes back to the dissembling luxurious d... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 4.\nThe plain between Troy and the Grecian camp",
"Enter THERSITES. Excursions",
"THERSITES. Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look\n on. That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same\n scurvy doting foolish young knave's sleeve of Troy there in his\n helm.... |
3,573 | 1790_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Diomedes and his servant enter. Diomedes tells his servant to take Troilus horse, present it to Cressida, and to tell her that he is now her knight by proof. Diomedes tone is meant to be chivalric. The servant agrees to do as he is bid and exits. Agamemnon enters. He calls on the Greeks to fight and to attack once more... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 5.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter DIOMEDES and A SERVANT",
"DIOMEDES. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;\n Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid.\n Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;\n Tell her I have chastis'd the amorous Troyan,\n And am her knight by proof... |
3,574 | 1790_scene_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Ajax. Ajax is baying for Troilus. Diomedes enters. He is also looking for Troilus. Ajax asks him why he wants him. Diomedes says that he wishes to chastise him. Ajax says that if he were the general he would give away his office before he let Diomedes do the correction. He then bays for Troilus again. Troilus ent... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 6.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter AJAX",
"AJAX. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head.",
"Enter DIOMEDES",
"DIOMEDES. Troilus, I say! Where's Troilus?\n AJAX. What wouldst thou?\n DIOMEDES. I would correct him.\n AJAX. Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office\n Ere tha... |
3,575 | 1790_scene_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Achilles with Myrmidons. Achilles tells his Myrmidons to listen to what he has to say. He tells them to follow him when he moved in an arc, not to strike at all but preserve their breath, and when he had found Hector, to surround and close him in with their weapons, and quickly carry out the operation. He tells t... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 7.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons",
"ACHILLES. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;\n Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel;\n Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath;\n And when I have the bloody Hector found,\n Empale him with your weapons... |
3,576 | 1790_scene_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Hector enters. He has just killed the finely armored warrior and has found a diseased body inside. Thy goodly armor thus hath cost thy life. he says. Then considering his days work done, Hector decides to relax and setting his sword which hast thy fill of blood and death aside, he disarms. Enter Achilles and the Myrmid... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 8.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter HECTOR",
"HECTOR. Most putrified core so fair without,\n Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.\n Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:\n Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death!\n [Disarms]",
"Enter ACHILLES and his Myrm... |
3,577 | 1790_scene_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes and the Rest. Marching, shouts. Agamemnon wonders what the shouts are about Nestor silences the drummers. Soldiers set up the chant that Achilles has killed Hector. Diomedes says, rumor has it that Achilles has killed Hector. Ajax says if that is really true, let it be ... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 9.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Sound retreat. Shout. Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR,\nDIOMEDES, and the rest, marching",
"AGAMEMNON. Hark! hark! what shout is this?\n NESTOR. Peace, drums!\n SOLDIERS. [Within] Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain. Achilles!\n DIOMEDES. The bruit is Hec... |
3,578 | 1790_scene_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aeneas, Paris, Antenor and Deiphobus enter. Aeneas says that they must never go home and here starve we out the night on the battlefield. Troilus enters and announces that Hector has been killed. Everybody is aghast. Troilus reiterates that Hector is dead and adds that his body had been dragged through the battlefield.... | [
"ACT V. SCENE 10.\nAnother part of the plain",
"Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, and DEIPHOBUS",
"AENEAS. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field.\n Never go home; here starve we out the night.",
"Enter TROILUS",
"TROILUS. Hector is slain. ALL. Hector! The gods forbid! TROILUS. He's dead, and at the murd... |
3,582 | 2250_act_1_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard II is majestically seated on his throne preparing to judge two noblemen accusing each other of treason. Richard orders both men to be brought before the throne. They enter and immediately hurl accusations at each other, in the process getting so mad that each man throws down his gage , which is a challenge to a... | [
"Actus Primus, Scaena Prima.",
"Enter King Richard, Iohn of Gaunt, with other Nobles and\nAttendants.",
"King Richard. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,\nHast thou according to thy oath and band\nBrought hither Henry Herford thy bold son:\nHeere to make good y boistrous late appeale,\nWhich then our l... |
3,583 | 2250_act_1_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John of Gaunt laments the fact that his son is starting a new quarrel over the Duke of Gloucester's death. The Duchess of Gloucester does not agree with his sentiments, saying instead that her husband's death should be revenged. Powerless to intervene in the state affairs, the Duchess wishes that Mowbray will be killed... | [
"Scaena Secunda.",
"Enter Gaunt, and Dutchesse of Gloucester.",
"Gaunt. Alas, the part I had in Glousters blood,\nDoth more solicite me then your exclaimes,\nTo stirre against the Butchers of his life.\nBut since correction lyeth in those hands\nWhich made the fault that we cannot correct,\nPut we our quarrell ... |
3,584 | 2250_act_1_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The two quarreling noblemen are armed and ready to fight in the arena at Coventry when King Richard arrives. The duel is conducted ceremonially, with the Lord Marshal obeying the king's orders. He first makes Mowbray come forward and state why he is present, followed by Bolingbroke. Both men give their names and reason... | [
"Scena Tertia.",
"Enter Marshall, and Aumerle.",
"Mar. My L[ord]. Aumerle, is Harry Herford arm'd",
"Aum. Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in",
"Mar. The Duke of Norfolke, sprightfully and bold,\nStayes but the summons of the Appealants Trumpet",
"Au. Why then the Champions, are prepar'd, and stay\n... |
3,585 | 2250_act_1_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard asks Aumerle how Bolingbroke reacted after the sentencing. Aumerle says that he pretended to be overwhelmed with grief rather than tell Bolingbroke "farewell. Richard tells the assembled men that Bolingbroke was becoming dangerous because of his popularity among the common people. Observed his courtship to the ... | [
"Scoena Quarta.",
"Enter King, Aumerle, Greene, and Bagot.",
"Rich. We did obserue. Cosine Aumerle,\nHow far brought you high Herford on his way?\n Aum. I brought high Herford (if you call him so)\nBut to the next high way, and there I left him",
"Rich. And say, what store of parting tears were shed?\n Aum.... |
3,586 | 2250_act_2_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John of Gaunt, close to dying, is sitting in a chair speaking with the Duke of York. He wishes that Richard would arrive because he want to advise Richard on becoming a better king. York informs Gaunt that it is unlikely Richard will ever listen to him, since the king has surrounded himself with flatterers. Gaunt predi... | [
"Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Gaunt, sicke with Yorke.",
"Gau. Will the King come, that I may breath my last\nIn wholsome counsell to his vnstaid youth?\n Yor. Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth,\nFor all in vaine comes counsell to his eare",
"Gau. Oh but (they say) the tongues of dy... |
3,587 | 2250_act_2_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Queen is upset that Richard has been forced to go to Ireland, and misses his presence. Bushy tries to comfort her, but is interrupted by Green with the news that Bolingbroke has landed in the north. To make things even worse, he further tells her that Northumberland, Northumberland's son Harry Percy, and several ot... | [
"Scena Secunda.",
"Enter Queene, Bushy, and Bagot.",
"Bush. Madam, your Maiesty is too much sad,\nYou promis'd when you parted with the King,\nTo lay aside selfe-harming heauinesse,\nAnd entertaine a cheerefull disposition",
"Qu. To please the King, I did: to please my selfe\nI cannot do it: yet I know no cau... |
3,588 | 2250_act_2_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Northumberland has joined Bolingbroke, who is leading his army towards Berkeley where several other nobles have gathered. Harry Percy, who figures prominently in Henry IV, Part One, is introduced and meets Bolingbroke for the first time. Ross and Willoughby also arrive and welcome Bolingbroke back to England. Lord Berk... | [
"Scaena Tertia.",
"Enter the Duke of Hereford, and Northumberland.",
"Bul. How farre is it my Lord to Berkley now?\n Nor. Beleeue me noble Lord,\nI am a stranger heere in Gloustershire,\nThese high wilde hilles, and rough vneeuen waies,\nDrawes out our miles, and makes them wearisome.\nAnd yet our faire discou... |
3,589 | 2250_act_2_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Earl of Salisbury pleads with a Welsh captain to remain with his army rather than return to Wales. The men are waiting for the arrival of Richard's army so that they can attack Ireland together. The captain tells Salisbury that there have been omens indicating that the king will soon fall or die, and that he is the... | [
"Scoena Quarta.",
"Enter Salisbury, and a Captaine.",
"Capt. My Lord of Salisbury, we haue stayd ten dayes,\nAnd hardly kept our Countreymen together,\nAnd yet we heare no tidings from the King;\nTherefore we will disperse our selues: farewell",
"Sal. Stay yet another day, thou trustie Welchman,\nThe King rep... |
3,590 | 2250_act_3_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke succeeds in capturing Green and Bushy at Bristol Castle. He informs the men that they are traitors because of the way they misled the king. They are both sentenced to death, and Northumberland leads them away to be killed. Bolingbroke then makes sure that York has delivered a message to the Queen informing ... | [
"Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Bullingbrooke, Yorke, Northumberland, Rosse, Percie,\nWilloughby,\nwith Bushie and Greene Prisoners.",
"Bull. Bring forth these men:\nBushie and Greene, I will not vex your soules,\n(Since presently your soules must part your bodies)\nWith too much vrging your pernitious li... |
3,591 | 2250_act_3_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard arrives in Wales after a long sea-journey, and gratefully touches the earth, happy to be back on firm ground. Aumerle comments that Bolingbroke is growing stronger the longer they wait to return. Richard delivers a speech defining what he believes makes a king, saying, "Not all the water in the rough rude sea /... | [
"Scena Secunda.",
"Drums: Flourish, and Colours. Enter Richard, Aumerle, Carlile,\nand\nSouldiers.",
"Rich. Barkloughly Castle call you this at hand? Au. Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre,\nAfter your late tossing on the breaking Seas? Rich. Needs must I like it well: I weepe for ioy\nTo stand vpon m... |
3,592 | 2250_act_3_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke arrives at Flint Castle and fortuitously discovers that Richard is hiding there with his followers. He sends Northumberland to the castle to ask Richard if he, Bolingbroke, may kneel before the royal throne, provided Richard revokes the banishment and restores his lands. Bolingbroke then marches directly up... | [
"Scaena Tertia.",
"Enter with Drum and Colours, Bullingbrooke, Yorke,\nNorthumberland,\nAttendants.",
"Bull. So that by this intelligence we learne\nThe Welchmen are dispers'd, and Salisbury\nIs gone to meet the King, who lately landed\nWith some few priuate friends, vpon this Coast",
"North. The newes is ver... |
3,593 | 2250_act_3_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Queen is in the garden with her ladies trying to find a game to play when the Gardener arrives. She quickly hides behind some trees and overhears the Gardener speaking with two other men. The Gardener orders the men to keep the garden orderly and neat, but one of the men asks why they should make the garden nice wh... | [
"Scena Quarta.",
"Enter the Queene, and two Ladies",
"Qu. What sport shall we deuise here in this Garden,\nTo driue away the heauie thought of Care?\n La. Madame, wee'le play at Bowles",
"Qu. 'Twill make me thinke the World is full of Rubs,\nAnd that my fortune runnes against the Byas",
"La. Madame, wee'le... |
3,594 | 2250_act_4_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene One Bolingbroke, now in charge of England, commands Bagot to reveal who the actual murderer of the Duke of Gloucester was. Bagot insists that it was Aumerle, who in a rage throws down his glove as a challenge to a duel. Bolingbroke forbids Bagot to pick up the glove, but Fitzwalter intervenes and throws his glove... | [
"Actus Quartus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter as to the Parliament, Bullingbrooke, Aumerle,\nNorthumberland,\nPercie, FitzWater, Surrey, Carlile, Abbot of Westminster. Herauld,\nOfficers, and Bagot.",
"Bullingbrooke. Call forth Bagot.\nNow Bagot, freely speake thy minde,\nWhat thou do'st know of Noble Glousters death:... |
3,595 | 2250_act_5_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard's Queen meets him as he is being taken into the Tower, and Richard tells her to leave for France immediately. Northumberland arrives and changes the orders, telling Richard he will instead be sent to Pomfret. The Queen says goodbye to Richard after failing to convince Northumberland to let her go with him. She ... | [
"Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Queene, and Ladies.",
"Qu. This way the King will come: this is the way\nTo Iulius C�sars ill-erected Tower:\nTo whose flint Bosome, my condemned Lord\nIs doom'd a Prisoner, by prowd Bullingbrooke.\nHere let vs rest, if this rebellious Earth\nHaue any resting for her true K... |
3,596 | 2250_act_5_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duke of York tells his wife then when Bolingbroke rode into London he was greeted with shouts of, "God save thee, Bolingbroke," whereas Richard had dirt thrown at him. Aumerle arrives, having been stripped of his Dukedom by Bolingbroke. He has a letter in his hand, which York demands to see. Aumerle refuses to show... | [
"Scoena Secunda.",
"Enter Yorke, and his Duchesse.",
"Duch. My Lord, you told me you would tell the rest,\nWhen weeping made you breake the story off,\nOf our two Cousins comming into London",
"Yorke. Where did I leaue?\n Duch. At that sad stoppe, my Lord,\nWhere rude mis-gouern'd hands, from Windowes tops,\... |
3,597 | 2250_act_5_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke, now crowned King Henry IV, asks about his son Hal, who is famous for being a spendthrift and is known to hang around brothels and taverns. Henry comments, "Yet through both / I see some sparks of better hope, which elder days / May happily bring forth". Aumerle arrives and throws himself to the ground in f... | [
"Scoena Tertia.",
"Enter Bullingbrooke, Percie, and other Lords.",
"Bul. Can no man tell of my vnthriftie Sonne?\n'Tis full three monthes since I did see him last.\nIf any plague hang ouer vs, 'tis he,\nI would to heauen (my Lords) he might be found:\nEnquire at London, 'mongst the Tauernes there:\nFor there (t... |
3,598 | 2250_act_5_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir Piers Exton has overheard King Henry remark, "Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear. taken to mean Richard. Exton therefore decides to go to Pomfret and kill Richard | [
"Scaena Quarta.",
"Enter Richard.",
"Rich. I haue bin studying, how to compare\nThis Prison where I liue, vnto the World:\nAnd for because the world is populous,\nAnd heere is not a Creature, but my selfe,\nI cannot do it: yet Ile hammer't out. My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule,\nMy Soule, the Father:... |
3,599 | 2250_act_5_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Richard is a prisoner in Pomfret castle. His former groom arrives and tells him that he was saddened by the coronation of Bolingbroke. Richard thanks the man and sends him away in order to protect him. The keeper arrives with food for Richard, but refuses to taste it first to ensure that no one has poisoned it. Richard... | [
"Scoena Quinta.",
"Flourish. Enter Bullingbrooke, Yorke, with other Lords &\nattendants.",
"Bul. Kinde Vnkle Yorke, the latest newes we heare,\nIs that the Rebels haue consum'd with fire\nOur Towne of Cicester in Gloucestershire,\nBut whether they be tane or slaine, we heare not.\nEnter Northumberland.",
"Wel... |
3,582 | 2250_act_1,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Windsor Castle, Richard II just wants to chill out and enjoy the benefits of being a king who everyone thinks has been handpicked by God to rule England. But he can't relax because two seriously angry noblemen have arrived at the castle and want him to play Judge Judy. The angry noblemen are Henry Bolingbroke and Mo... | [
"Actus Primus, Scaena Prima.",
"Enter King Richard, Iohn of Gaunt, with other Nobles and\nAttendants.",
"King Richard. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,\nHast thou according to thy oath and band\nBrought hither Henry Herford thy bold son:\nHeere to make good y boistrous late appeale,\nWhich then our l... |
3,583 | 2250_act_1,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the scene opens, John of Gaunt is in the middle of a private chitchat with his sister-in-law, the Duchess of Gloucester. The Duchess is the widow of the late Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester. The Duchess is heartbroken about her husband's murder and has just asked her brother-in-law to avenge his death. Gau... | [
"Scaena Secunda.",
"Enter Gaunt, and Dutchesse of Gloucester.",
"Gaunt. Alas, the part I had in Glousters blood,\nDoth more solicite me then your exclaimes,\nTo stirre against the Butchers of his life.\nBut since correction lyeth in those hands\nWhich made the fault that we cannot correct,\nPut we our quarrell ... |
3,584 | 2250_act_1,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day of the big throwdown has finally arrived. Everyone gathers at the tournament arena in Coventry. Bolingbroke and Mowbray are all suited up in their armor and ready to throw down. King Richard arrives and makes a big, red-carpet-worthy entry, complete with trumpet blasts and kneeling subjects. Richard gives the g... | [
"Scena Tertia.",
"Enter Marshall, and Aumerle.",
"Mar. My L[ord]. Aumerle, is Harry Herford arm'd",
"Aum. Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in",
"Mar. The Duke of Norfolke, sprightfully and bold,\nStayes but the summons of the Appealants Trumpet",
"Au. Why then the Champions, are prepar'd, and stay\n... |
3,585 | 2250_act_1,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Aumerle reports to King Richard that he just escorted Bolingbroke to the edge of town, where things got a little awkward. Richard wants every juicy detail and is all, "Did anyone cry when Bolingbroke left?" Aumerle says he didn't cry, but a northeast wind might have made his eyes water. Aumerle then tells the king that... | [
"Scoena Quarta.",
"Enter King, Aumerle, Greene, and Bagot.",
"Rich. We did obserue. Cosine Aumerle,\nHow far brought you high Herford on his way?\n Aum. I brought high Herford (if you call him so)\nBut to the next high way, and there I left him",
"Rich. And say, what store of parting tears were shed?\n Aum.... |
3,586 | 2250_act_2,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Ely House in London, John of Gaunt hangs out with the Duke of York. Gaunt is at death's door, and he says he hopes King Richard will listen to good advice if it comes from a dying man. York tells him it's useless. Richard's too busy listening to all the brown-nosers who only tell the king what he wants to hear. Gaun... | [
"Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Gaunt, sicke with Yorke.",
"Gau. Will the King come, that I may breath my last\nIn wholsome counsell to his vnstaid youth?\n Yor. Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth,\nFor all in vaine comes counsell to his eare",
"Gau. Oh but (they say) the tongues of dy... |
3,587 | 2250_act_2,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Windsor castle, Bushy tries to cheer up Queen Isabella, who seems sad and preoccupied now that her husband has run off to fight a war in Ireland. Isabella says she's worried that something terrible is about to happen, even though she can't quite put her finger on what it is that's bothering her. Brain Snack: In the ... | [
"Scena Secunda.",
"Enter Queene, Bushy, and Bagot.",
"Bush. Madam, your Maiesty is too much sad,\nYou promis'd when you parted with the King,\nTo lay aside selfe-harming heauinesse,\nAnd entertaine a cheerefull disposition",
"Qu. To please the King, I did: to please my selfe\nI cannot do it: yet I know no cau... |
3,588 | 2250_act_2,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The scene opens in Gloucestershire , where Bolingbroke and Northumberland are leading Henry's army toward Cotswold to meet up with Berkeley, Ross, and Willoughby . Tip: Now would be a good time to take a look at this map to see how far Henry has marched . Northumberland's son Henry Percy shows up. He says Northumberlan... | [
"Scaena Tertia.",
"Enter the Duke of Hereford, and Northumberland.",
"Bul. How farre is it my Lord to Berkley now?\n Nor. Beleeue me noble Lord,\nI am a stranger heere in Gloustershire,\nThese high wilde hilles, and rough vneeuen waies,\nDrawes out our miles, and makes them wearisome.\nAnd yet our faire discou... |
3,589 | 2250_act_2,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the coast of Wales, a Welsh Captain and his troops have been waiting around for King Richard to show up so they can help him fight Henry Bolingbroke's army. The Captain tells the Earl of Salisbury that he's sick and tired of waiting for Richard. He's going to send all his men home if Richard doesn't show up in the n... | [
"Scoena Quarta.",
"Enter Salisbury, and a Captaine.",
"Capt. My Lord of Salisbury, we haue stayd ten dayes,\nAnd hardly kept our Countreymen together,\nAnd yet we heare no tidings from the King;\nTherefore we will disperse our selues: farewell",
"Sal. Stay yet another day, thou trustie Welchman,\nThe King rep... |
3,590 | 2250_act_3,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the scene opens, Bolingbroke has captured Bristol Castle, where Bushy and Green have been hiding out. Bolingbroke doesn't want there to be any confusion, so he tells everybody why he's sentencing Bushy and Green to death. First Bolingbroke accuses Bushy and Green of corrupting the king and coming between him and h... | [
"Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Bullingbrooke, Yorke, Northumberland, Rosse, Percie,\nWilloughby,\nwith Bushie and Greene Prisoners.",
"Bull. Bring forth these men:\nBushie and Greene, I will not vex your soules,\n(Since presently your soules must part your bodies)\nWith too much vrging your pernitious li... |
3,591 | 2250_act_3,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Meanwhile, Richard and his crew have arrived at Harlech Castle, on the coast of Wales. Richard is grateful to be back on British soil. So grateful, in fact, that he bends down, picks up some dirt, and starts to sweet-talk the soil: "Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand." Then Richard asks the earth not to help the... | [
"Scena Secunda.",
"Drums: Flourish, and Colours. Enter Richard, Aumerle, Carlile,\nand\nSouldiers.",
"Rich. Barkloughly Castle call you this at hand? Au. Yea, my Lord: how brooks your Grace the ayre,\nAfter your late tossing on the breaking Seas? Rich. Needs must I like it well: I weepe for ioy\nTo stand vpon m... |
3,592 | 2250_act_3,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke, Northumberland, and York are outside Flint Castle talking about the news that King Richard has returned to England. Northumberland refers to King Richard as "Richard," omitting his title . York tells him it would be more respectful to refer to him as King Richard. Northumberland says "my bad" and explains ... | [
"Scaena Tertia.",
"Enter with Drum and Colours, Bullingbrooke, Yorke,\nNorthumberland,\nAttendants.",
"Bull. So that by this intelligence we learne\nThe Welchmen are dispers'd, and Salisbury\nIs gone to meet the King, who lately landed\nWith some few priuate friends, vpon this Coast",
"North. The newes is ver... |
3,593 | 2250_act_3,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In her private garden, the queen chills out with her two ladies in waiting. They suggest lawn bowling and dancing and storytelling. She rejects them all. One lady offers to sing, and the queen answers that she'd rather hear her cry. The second lady offers to weep, and the queen says she'd sing if hearing her weep would... | [
"Scena Quarta.",
"Enter the Queene, and two Ladies",
"Qu. What sport shall we deuise here in this Garden,\nTo driue away the heauie thought of Care?\n La. Madame, wee'le play at Bowles",
"Qu. 'Twill make me thinke the World is full of Rubs,\nAnd that my fortune runnes against the Byas",
"La. Madame, wee'le... |
3,594 | 2250_act_4,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke orders Bagot to be brought forth and asks him to tell him the truth about Gloucester's death. Bagot asks to be placed in front of Lord Aumerle and accuses him of talking trash about Henry and bragging that he killed Gloucester. Aumerle throws down his gage. Bolingbroke tells Bagot not to take the challenge.... | [
"Actus Quartus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter as to the Parliament, Bullingbrooke, Aumerle,\nNorthumberland,\nPercie, FitzWater, Surrey, Carlile, Abbot of Westminster. Herauld,\nOfficers, and Bagot.",
"Bullingbrooke. Call forth Bagot.\nNow Bagot, freely speake thy minde,\nWhat thou do'st know of Noble Glousters death:... |
3,595 | 2250_act_5,_scene_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The queen is waiting in a public street for the king to pass by on his way to the Tower of London, where he's going to be imprisoned. When the king appears, the queen compares him to a withering rose and hopes that those watching might dissolve into dew and refresh him with tears of love. Richard asks the queen not to ... | [
"Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Queene, and Ladies.",
"Qu. This way the King will come: this is the way\nTo Iulius C�sars ill-erected Tower:\nTo whose flint Bosome, my condemned Lord\nIs doom'd a Prisoner, by prowd Bullingbrooke.\nHere let vs rest, if this rebellious Earth\nHaue any resting for her true K... |
3,596 | 2250_act_5,_scene_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Duchess asks York to finish telling her about their two cousins' arrival in London. He had left off telling her about the people throwing dust and garbage on Richard's head from their windows. Bolingbroke, York continues, rode on horseback and was welcomed by the people. The Duchess asks where Richard was riding. Y... | [
"Scoena Secunda.",
"Enter Yorke, and his Duchesse.",
"Duch. My Lord, you told me you would tell the rest,\nWhen weeping made you breake the story off,\nOf our two Cousins comming into London",
"Yorke. Where did I leaue?\n Duch. At that sad stoppe, my Lord,\nWhere rude mis-gouern'd hands, from Windowes tops,\... |
3,597 | 2250_act_5,_scene_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Henry asks if anyone has had news of his son, whom he hasn't heard from for three months. He calls him a "plague" hanging over the new kingdom and orders a search of the taverns, where the prince is known to hang out with criminals. Henry Percy replies that he saw him two days ago and told him about the combat tri... | [
"Scoena Tertia.",
"Enter Bullingbrooke, Percie, and other Lords.",
"Bul. Can no man tell of my vnthriftie Sonne?\n'Tis full three monthes since I did see him last.\nIf any plague hang ouer vs, 'tis he,\nI would to heauen (my Lords) he might be found:\nEnquire at London, 'mongst the Tauernes there:\nFor there (t... |
3,598 | 2250_act_5,_scene_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Windsor Castle we bump into a guy named Exton. Exton thinks he just heard King Henry say the following: "Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?" But Exton's not sure he heard right, so he double checks with a servant, who says yep - Henry said that all right. Exton points out that King Henry was looking r... | [
"Scaena Quarta.",
"Enter Richard.",
"Rich. I haue bin studying, how to compare\nThis Prison where I liue, vnto the World:\nAnd for because the world is populous,\nAnd heere is not a Creature, but my selfe,\nI cannot do it: yet Ile hammer't out. My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule,\nMy Soule, the Father:... |
3,599 | 2250_act_5,_scene_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In prison at Pomfret Castle, Richard gives a long, weird, but very poetic speech about his loneliness. He says he can't compare his prison to the rest of the world because the world is full of people and he is all alone in prison. Then he imagines that his brain is female and his soul is male. If his brain and soul cou... | [
"Scoena Quinta.",
"Flourish. Enter Bullingbrooke, Yorke, with other Lords &\nattendants.",
"Bul. Kinde Vnkle Yorke, the latest newes we heare,\nIs that the Rebels haue consum'd with fire\nOur Towne of Cicester in Gloucestershire,\nBut whether they be tane or slaine, we heare not.\nEnter Northumberland.",
"Wel... |
3,600 | 2250_act_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Richard II opens the play by asking old John of Gaunt if he has brought John's son, Henry Bolingbroke, to substantiate charges of treason that he has made against Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. After asking Gaunt if he has already questioned his son on the matter, Richard asks that the two men be brought before ... | [
"Actus Primus, Scaena Prima.",
"Enter King Richard, Iohn of Gaunt, with other Nobles and\nAttendants.",
"King Richard. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,\nHast thou according to thy oath and band\nBrought hither Henry Herford thy bold son:\nHeere to make good y boistrous late appeale,\nWhich then our l... |
3,601 | 2250_act_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Scene 1 takes place at Ely House in London, where Gaunt lies ill. His first speech forms a sort of "bridge" between the end of the last scene and this act. Speaking to his brother, the Duke of York, Gaunt asks, "Will the king come that I may breathe my last / In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?" Clearly, Gaunt i... | [
"Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Gaunt, sicke with Yorke.",
"Gau. Will the King come, that I may breath my last\nIn wholsome counsell to his vnstaid youth?\n Yor. Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth,\nFor all in vaine comes counsell to his eare",
"Gau. Oh but (they say) the tongues of dy... |
3,602 | 2250_act_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bolingbroke makes his first public, political act. Standing before the castle of Bristol, he passes sentence on Bushy and Green. He gives a long account of the men's wrongs, including the charges that they "misled a prince, a royal king . . . made a divorce between his queen and him." Furthermore, they seized Bolingbro... | [
"Actus Tertius. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Bullingbrooke, Yorke, Northumberland, Rosse, Percie,\nWilloughby,\nwith Bushie and Greene Prisoners.",
"Bull. Bring forth these men:\nBushie and Greene, I will not vex your soules,\n(Since presently your soules must part your bodies)\nWith too much vrging your pernitious li... |
3,594 | 2250_act_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This act has only one scene, and it takes place in London, in Westminster Hall, about forty days after the king's surrender at Flint Castle. It focuses on a meeting in Parliament, held to decide the matter of kingship and also to discuss Bolingbroke's actions, as well as those of Richard and his accomplices. Among thos... | [
"Actus Quartus. Scoena Prima.",
"Enter as to the Parliament, Bullingbrooke, Aumerle,\nNorthumberland,\nPercie, FitzWater, Surrey, Carlile, Abbot of Westminster. Herauld,\nOfficers, and Bagot.",
"Bullingbrooke. Call forth Bagot.\nNow Bagot, freely speake thy minde,\nWhat thou do'st know of Noble Glousters death:... |
3,603 | 2250_act_v | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The last act opens with Richard on his way to the Tower. The queen is onstage, waiting for her husband to pass by so that she may tell him goodbye. When she sees him, she likens him to a "beauteous inn" that houses grief; she likens Bolingbroke to a "common alehouse." She urges her husband to stand tall; it pains her t... | [
"Actus Quintus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Queene, and Ladies.",
"Qu. This way the King will come: this is the way\nTo Iulius C�sars ill-erected Tower:\nTo whose flint Bosome, my condemned Lord\nIs doom'd a Prisoner, by prowd Bullingbrooke.\nHere let vs rest, if this rebellious Earth\nHaue any resting for her true K... |
3,582 | 2250_act_i,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As the play opens, the young King Richard II has just arrived at Windsor Castle, a royal headquarters near London. There he is to arbitrate a dispute between two noble courtiers, one of whom has accused the other of treachery. The accuser is the king's cousin, a proud young nobleman named Henry Bolingbroke, also called... | [
"Actus Primus, Scaena Prima.",
"Enter King Richard, Iohn of Gaunt, with other Nobles and\nAttendants.",
"King Richard. Old Iohn of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster,\nHast thou according to thy oath and band\nBrought hither Henry Herford thy bold son:\nHeere to make good y boistrous late appeale,\nWhich then our l... |
3,583 | 2250_act_i,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the court is waiting for Bolingbroke and Mowbray to settle their mutual accusations of treason in the lists , John of Gaunt, Bolingbroke's father, has a visit from his sister-in-law, the old Duchess of Gloucester. The Duchess is the widow of Gaunt's murdered brother Thomas of Gloucester, and she has an ax to grin... | [
"Scaena Secunda.",
"Enter Gaunt, and Dutchesse of Gloucester.",
"Gaunt. Alas, the part I had in Glousters blood,\nDoth more solicite me then your exclaimes,\nTo stirre against the Butchers of his life.\nBut since correction lyeth in those hands\nWhich made the fault that we cannot correct,\nPut we our quarrell ... |
3,584 | 2250_act_i,_scene_iii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Coventry, the two challengers, Bolingbroke and Mowbray, enter fully armed into the "lists," or the field of ritual combat. Bolingbroke is the accuser, or "appellant," and Mowbray the "defendant." Aided by the traditional officer of the duel , King Richard formally questions them both and has them repeat their accusa... | [
"Scena Tertia.",
"Enter Marshall, and Aumerle.",
"Mar. My L[ord]. Aumerle, is Harry Herford arm'd",
"Aum. Yea, at all points, and longs to enter in",
"Mar. The Duke of Norfolke, sprightfully and bold,\nStayes but the summons of the Appealants Trumpet",
"Au. Why then the Champions, are prepar'd, and stay\n... |
3,585 | 2250_act_i,_scene_iv | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Bolingbroke has been banished from England, King Richard returns from Coventry to his court, accompanied by two of his friends and allies, the noblemen Bagot and Greene. King Richard's cousin, the Duke of Aumerle , has just returned from escorting Bolingbroke down to the sea, where the latter has taken ship for E... | [
"Scoena Quarta.",
"Enter King, Aumerle, Greene, and Bagot.",
"Rich. We did obserue. Cosine Aumerle,\nHow far brought you high Herford on his way?\n Aum. I brought high Herford (if you call him so)\nBut to the next high way, and there I left him",
"Rich. And say, what store of parting tears were shed?\n Aum.... |
3,586 | 2250_act_ii,_scene_i | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | John of Gaunt, ill and dying in his house, talks with the Duke of York while he awaits the arrival of King Richard. Gaunt hopes that, with his dying breath, he will be able to give the foolhardy young King Richard some advice that he will listen to. York says that that is unlikely; the King is too much surrounded by fl... | [
"Actus Secundus. Scena Prima.",
"Enter Gaunt, sicke with Yorke.",
"Gau. Will the King come, that I may breath my last\nIn wholsome counsell to his vnstaid youth?\n Yor. Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth,\nFor all in vaine comes counsell to his eare",
"Gau. Oh but (they say) the tongues of dy... |
3,587 | 2250_act_ii,_scene_ii | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | King Richard has departed for Ireland to put down the rebels there. Back at Windsor Castle, near London, Queen Isabel mourns his absence. Bushy and Bagot, loyal advisors of the King, try to comfort her, but Isabel says she is haunted by foreboding and despair. She feels as though something terrible is going to happen: ... | [
"Scena Secunda.",
"Enter Queene, Bushy, and Bagot.",
"Bush. Madam, your Maiesty is too much sad,\nYou promis'd when you parted with the King,\nTo lay aside selfe-harming heauinesse,\nAnd entertaine a cheerefull disposition",
"Qu. To please the King, I did: to please my selfe\nI cannot do it: yet I know no cau... |
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