A Scene a day – Troilus & Cressida – Prologue

I have only read this play once before although I have seen a production of it, it was by drama students and a really poor production. The cast all changed roles in the interval which made the whole play incomprehensible.

The Prologue!

This play starts with a prologue who tells us where we are (Troy) and in the middle of the Trojan Wars. We are not starting at the beginning of these wars but in middle. The Prologue also says

To what may be digested in a play.

Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are:

Now good or bad, ’tis but the chance of war

Shakespeare uses that a lot. Like it or not, it is what it is.