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| Character | Aeneas | |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Descriptive, Speech | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Action, Romance, Historical, Tragedy, War | |
| Description | Aeneas brings a challenge from Hector to the Greeks | |
| Location | ACT I, Scene 3 | |
Summary
The prologue introduces us to the story. The play is about the Trojan War, the mythological war between Troy and several Greek kings led by Menelaus of Sparta. The war starts when Paris of Troy steals the beautiful Helen from Menelaus. In response, the Spartan king gathers 69 princes from several cities in Greece and attacks Troy in order to rescue Helen. The play starts in the middle of the war, that is 7 years after the war started.
In the first two scenes we are introduced to the main characters in the Trojan side and Troilus' love for Cressida.
In the third scene we are in the Greek camp. Agamemnon, the Greek general, Nestor and Ulysses, who are commanders, express their opinions on the war and propose plans of action. They are interrupted by Aeneas, a Trojan commander, who brings a challenge from Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior. Hector has decided to challenge any Greek soldier in a fight and in case he is defeated, he will give up his wife to whoever he will fight.
In the first two scenes we are introduced to the main characters in the Trojan side and Troilus' love for Cressida.
In the third scene we are in the Greek camp. Agamemnon, the Greek general, Nestor and Ulysses, who are commanders, express their opinions on the war and propose plans of action. They are interrupted by Aeneas, a Trojan commander, who brings a challenge from Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior. Hector has decided to challenge any Greek soldier in a fight and in case he is defeated, he will give up his wife to whoever he will fight.
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| AENEAS Trumpet, blow loud, Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents; And every Greek of mettle, let him know, What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud. [Trumpet sounds] We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy A prince call'd Hector,--Priam is his father,-- Who in this dull and long-continued truce Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet, And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords! If there be one among the fair'st of Greece That holds his honour higher than his ease, That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril, That knows his valour, and knows not his fear, That loves his mistress more than in confession, With truant vows to her own lips he loves, And dare avow her beauty and her worth In other arms than hers,--to him this challenge. Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks, Shall make it good, or do his best to do it, He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer, Than ever Greek did compass in his arms, And will to-morrow with his trumpet call Midway between your tents and walls of Troy, To rouse a Grecian that is true in love: If any come, Hector shall honour him; If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires, The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth The splinter of a lance. Even so much. |
