Pandarus

Also known as: Lord Pandarus / Pandar / uncle · Family: Troy · Role: kinsman · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene I

Life events

• Troilus reveals to Pandarus that he is passionately in love with Cressid.(Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene I · 📍 Troy)
  • With: Troilus Cressida
  • “I tell thee I am mad In Cressid’s love.”
• Pandarus reveals that Cressida is desperately in love with something Helen possesses.(Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene I)
  • With: Cressida Helen
  • “My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have, sweet queen.”
• Pandarus brings Cressida to Troilus, enabling their long-awaited encounter.(Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene II · 📍 orchard)
  • With: Troilus Cressida
  • “Re-enter Pandarus with Cressida.”
• Pandarus seals their bargain by joining their hands and sends them to a chamber and bed.(Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene II)
  • With: Troilus Cressida
  • “Go to, a bargain made; seal it, seal it; I’ll be the witness. Here I hold your hand; here my cousin’s.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene I

• with Cressida (Pandarus identifies Cressid as his kinswoman.) “But, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I would not, as they term it, praise her, but I would somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did.”
• with Troilus (Pandarus serves as Troilus’s go-between in pursuing Cressid.) “I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar; And he’s as tetchy to be woo’d to woo As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene II

• younger kin: Cressida “Madam, your uncle Pandarus.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene I

• cousins with Cressida “Who, my cousin, Cressida?”
• younger kin: Cressida “My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have, sweet queen.”
• cousins with Paris “You have broke it, cousin; and by my life, you shall make it whole again; you shall piece it out with a piece of your performance.”
• friends with Paris “But, marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord and most esteemed friend, your brother Troilus—”

Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene II

• younger kin: Cressida (Pandarus is Cressida's uncle.) “Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.”

Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene II

• younger kin: Cressida (Pandarus is Cressida’s uncle.) “Here, you maid! Where’s my cousin Cressid? CRESSIDA. Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle.”

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