Word: troilus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jacques-Hamlet mood. The melancholy Jacques is a preparation for Hamlet. During this period, most of the sonnets were composed. Dur-the years 1603-1609, Shakespeare has returned to Stratford. This is his tragic period, and is distinguished by the composition of Julius Caesar, Measure For Measure, Macbeth, Othello, Troilus and Cressida and Anthony and Cleopatra. The fourth period is the Coriolanus-Timon of Athens mood, and the tendency is aristocratic and misanthropic. The last period is that of the Cymbeline-Tempest-Winter's Tale mood. It is a quieter, calmer period, and the spirit is contemplative and benevolent...
...thought more trustworthy than the Homeric poems. In these two poems the Trojans were famed, not the Greeks as in Homer, and the number of persons who were killed was estimated at 676,000 Trojans, and 886,000 Greeks. Shakespeare is said to have obtained the groundwork of his Troilus and Cresida from Dares' poem. In the fourteenth century the study of Homer was awakened by the students of the Byantine empire who flocked to Rome and Florence, and in 1488, the first edition of the original Greek appeared. In 1610 an English edition of Homer was published by George...