After Pandarus and Cressida watch the fighters return from battle, Cressida, when alone, acknowledges her attraction to Troilus. Act 1, scene 2 Cressida gossips with her servant Alexander, and then with Pandarus, who strives to interest her in Troilus.Pandarus, her uncle, complains of Troilus’s impatience and of his ingratitude for Pandarus’s efforts to help. Act 1, scene 1 Troilus refuses to fight because he is too disturbed by his unrequited love for Cressida.Grieving, Troilus and the other Trojans return to Troy. Achilles fights with and loses to Hector, who is then, on Achilles’s orders, dishonorably slain. Patroclus, favorite of the Greek warrior Achilles, dies in battle. Cressida, meanwhile, is seduced by Diomedes.Distraught at Cressida’s betrayal, Troilus fights Diomedes and others. Hector and Troilus join the Greeks for a feast.
The morning after the lovers’ night together, Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner and taken to the camp by the Greek warrior Diomedes.The great Trojan warrior Hector, Troilus’s brother, engages in single combat with the Greek Ajax, a fight that ends inconclusively. Cressida is drawn to Troilus, too, and her uncle, Pandarus, brings them together.In the Greek camp outside, Cressida’s father, Calchas, asks that Cressida be brought to him in return for the help he has given the Greeks. Inside the besieged city of Troy, the Trojan prince Troilus is lovesick for Cressida. Entire Play Set during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida recounts the love affair of its title characters.
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