The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of the Elizabethan Club copy of the first issue of the only early quarto edition. Of this edition, four copies of the first issue and eleven of the second are known to survive. The Elizabethan Club copy contains the title-pages of both issues and the Epistle which was prefixed to the second.

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LONDON Imprinted by G.Eld for R. Bonian and H. Walley, and are to be fold at the fpred Eagle in Paules Church-yeard,ouer against the

great North doorG.

1609.

CALCHAS, a Trojan Priest, taking part with the Greeks. PANDARUS, Uncle to Cressida.

AGAMEMNON, the Greek General.

MENELAUS, his Brother.

✓ THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Greek.

ALEXANDER, Servant to Cressida.

Servant to Troilus.

Servant to Paris.

Servant to Diomedes.

HELEN, Wife to Menelaus.

ANDROMACHE, Wife to Hector.

CASSANDRA, Daughter to Priam; a prophetess.
CRESSIDA, Daughter to Calchas.

Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants.

SCENE: Troy, and the Greek Camp before it.]

The Dramatis Personæ were first supplied, imperfectly, by Rowe (ed. 1709), and later completed by Theobald (ed. 1733).