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RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida

I shall cut out your tongue 'Tis no matter,I shall speak as much as thou afterwards No...

I shall cut out your tongue 'Tis no matter,
I shall speak as much as thou afterwards No more words, Thersites I shall hold my peace
when Achilles' bitch bids me, shall I?

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I shall cut out your tongue
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'Tis no matter, I shall speak as much as thou afterwards
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No more words, Thersites
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I shall hold my peace when Achilles' bitch bids me, shall I?
Duration
18 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:40:15
Uploaded
Jun 24, 2025
Production
Royal Shakespeare Company

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Movie Summary

Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy, their innocence is tested and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war with tragic consequences.
There's for you, Patroclus - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:45
There's for you, Patroclus
I know not: 'tis put to lottery, otherwise - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
I know not: 'tis put to lottery, otherwise
After so many hours, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:37
After so many hours,
Since the first sword was drawn about this question, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:19
Since the first sword was drawn about this question,
Weigh you the worth and honour of a king So great as our dread father, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:07
Weigh you the worth and honour of a king So great as our dre...
No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons, You are so empty of them - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:15
No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons, You are so e...
You fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons: - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:24
You fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons:
Nay, if we talk of reason, Let's shut our gates and sleep - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:16
Nay, if we talk of reason, Let's shut our gates and sle...
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:32
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the ...
Why, she is a pearl - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:28
Why, she is a pearl
O, theft most base, That we have stolen what we do fear to keep! - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:04
O, theft most base, That we have stolen what we do fear to k...
Cry, Trojans, cry! - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:04
Cry, Trojans, cry!
Our mad sister, I do know her voice - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:08
Our mad sister, I do know her voice
Lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:06
Lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophet...
Troy burns, or else let Helen go - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:10
Troy burns, or else let Helen go
Or is your blood So madly hot that no discourse of reason, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
Or is your blood So madly hot that no discourse of reason,
What treason were it to the ransacked queen, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:09
What treason were it to the ransacked queen,
Can it be that so degenerate a strain as this - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:07
Can it be that so degenerate a strain as this
There's not the meanest spirit on our party - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:54
There's not the meanest spirit on our party
If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king, As it is known she is, - RSC Live: Troilus and Cressida 00:55
If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king, As it is known ...