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{{first pic|Troilus and Cressida TMM.png|The real [[Troilus]] and [[Cressida]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Myth Makers (TV story)}}) whom an eight-[[year]]-old [[William Shakespeare]] met in [[1183 BC]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}})}} | |||
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''''' | '''''Troilus and Cressida''''' was a [[play]] by [[William Shakespeare]], featuring the two titular characters of [[Troilus]] and [[Cressida]]. | ||
The play had a good reputation among Shakespeare's works. The [[Eighth Doctor]], though he had not read it, knew it was "supposed to be one of the better ones". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}}) It was set during the [[Trojan War]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}}, {{cs|Troilus and Cressida (short story)}}) towards the end of the conflict. The [[Prologue (Troilus and Cressida)|Prologue]] at the play's start set up the current state of affairs and explained the reason for the war, saying that sixty-nine rulers were on their way to ransack the [[city]] of [[Troy]], in which [[Helen of Troy|Helen]], [[Menelaus]]' [[queen]], [[Sleep|slept]] with [[Paris (The Myth Makers)|Paris]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Troilus and Cressida (short story)}}) Shakespeare's play mostly followed the [[story]] established by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}}) in ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Troilus and Cressida (short story)}}) an eight-[[year]]-old Shakespeare referred to Cressida's tale as "part of [[tradition]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}}) | |||
A variant version of the play which was contained within the [[Shakespeare Notebooks]] featured a Prologue who was based upon the [[First Doctor]] and also ""seem[ed] to have some trouble keeping to his place in the [[drama]]". This Prologue claimed to be responsible for the successful [[Greek]] plan involving the [[Trojan Horse]] and also made several [[Anachronism|anachronistic]] references, including to [[television]] and [[film]] star [[Maxwell Reed]]. Some [[scholar]]s pointed to this as further evidence that the Notebooks were fakes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Troilus and Cressida (short story)}}) | |||
By the time of the First Doctor's visit to Troy in the company of [[Vicki Pallister]] and [[Steven Taylor]], the Doctor had not read ''Troilus and Cressida'' and had very limited knowledge of the play. One of his later [[incarnation]]s recalled in their [[memoir]] ''[[Not Necessarily the Way I Do It!]]'' that the only reason he let Vicki go away with Troilus at the fall of Troy was he had assumed the romance was predestined once he heard she was calling herself Cressida. This assumption was incorrect as Cressida ended up with [[Diomede]] in the play, not Troilus. | |||
In [[1183 BC]], the [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered Troilus and Cressida while travelling with [[Charlotte Pollard]] and a young William Shakespeare. The Doctor realised Shakespeare was due to write ''Troilus and Cressida'' in a few years and feared the creation of a [[temporal paradox]] unless he was careful. He resolved to prevent the boy from learning about Troilus and Cressida's background, ideally in such a way that he forgot as much of their present as possible too, and to this end he instructed Charley to get him so [[drunk]] he would not be able to remember his behaviour the next [[morning]]. The Doctor later explained his actions to everyone, causing Shakespeare to reveal that he already knew of the tale of Troilus and Cressida's failed [[love]] from the works of Chaucer while Charley added that Shakespeare's play was set during the Trojan War not after it, with Cressida ending up with Diomede not Troilus. The Doctor was then forced to admit that he had never actually read the play, and so was being over-cautious without reasonable cause. He attempted to excuse himself by claiming to have been busy, noting he had still not managed to tune the [[Time-Space Visualiser]] to catch all of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' which he had been trying to do for [[decade]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)}}) | |||
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