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Show
Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 5, Scene 10
Time & Place
A battlefield, Night
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
The siege of Troy is over as the Trojan hero,
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A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!
world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!
O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set
a-work, and how ill requited! why should our
endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?
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