Corpus

1300s 

Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cryseide (1380s)  

1400s 

Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cressid (c. 1450)  

 

1500s 

Gil Vicente, Auto de la Sebila Cassandra (1503)

John Lydgate, Troy Book (1513)  

Pierre De Ronsard, Les Amours (1560)

Nicolas Filleul, Achille, tragédie françoise, (1563). 

Anello Paulilli, Il Giuditio di Paride, Il Ratto di Elena, L’incendio di Troia (1566). 

Robert Garnier, La Troade, tragédie de Robert Garnier conseiller du Roy et de monseigneur Frere unique de sa Majesté, Lieutenant général Criminel au siège Présidial et Sénéchaussée du Mayne (1579). 

Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh (1581)  

Bongianni Gratarolo, Polissena (1589). 

Pierre Matthieu, Clytemnestre, tragédie de Pierre Matthieu, imitée de l’Agamemnon de Sénèque, De la vengeance des injures perdurable à la postérité des offencez, et des malheureuses fins de la volupté (1589). 

Richard Barnfield, Cynthia. With Certain Sonnets. With The Legend of Cassandra (1595)  

 

1600s 

William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602)  

Francis Bacon, The Wisdom of the Ancients (1609)  

Francesco Bracciolini Dall’Api, La Pentesilea (1614). 

Thomas Heywood, The Second Part of the Iron Age (1632)  

John Banks, The Destruction of Troy (1678)  

 

1700s 

Elkanah Settle, Troy Opera, variously entitled Cassandra: The Virgin Prophetess and The Virgin Prophetess; or The Fate of Troy (1702)

John O’Keeffe, The Siege of Troy (1795)  

 

1800s 

Elizabeth Cobbold, Cassandra (1821)  

Mary Shelley, Valperga (1823)  

Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1826)  

Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (1852)   

John Robert O’Neil, The Siege of Troy (1854)  

Lady Jane Francesca Wilde [Speranza], “Cassandra” (1864)  

Robert Reece, Agamemnon and Cassandra or the Prophet and Loss of Troy (1868)   

William Mower Akhurst, His Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair; or, The Giant Horse and the Siege of Troy (1868)  

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Cassandra” (1870)  

William Rathbone Greg’s Rocks Ahead; or The Warnings of Cassandra (1874)  

Algernon Swinburne, “The Nightingale”, On the Cliffs” (c. 1880)  

George Warr, The Tale of Troy (1883)  

George Warr, The Story of Orestes (1886)  

Edward F. Benson, The Babe, B.A., Being the Uneventful History of a Young Gentleman at Cambridge University (1896)  

George Meredith, “Cassandra” (1898)  

 

1900s  

H. D., “Cassandra” (1912-1944)  

Virginia Woolf, “Agamemnon Notebook” (1922-19225)  

Louise Bogan, “Cassandra” (1924)  

Dorothy Parker, “Cassandra Drops into Verse” (1925)  

Jean Giraudoux, La guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu (1935)

Christopher Morley, The Trojan Horse (1937)  

J.M. Coetzee, In the Heart of the Country (1977)  

Christopher Logue, War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad (1981-2015)  

Alma de Groen, Vocations (1981)  

Michèle Fabien, Cassandre (1983)

Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984)  

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Firebrand (1987)  

Hilary Bailey, Cassandra, Princess of Troy (1993)  

Kerry Greenwood, Cassandra (1995)  

Barbara Wood, The Prophetess (1996)  

Michael Longley, The Ghost Orchid (1997)  

 

2000s

Lina Prosa, Cassandra on the road (2006)

Jean Laude, Le Dict de Cassandre (2009)

Bernard Werber, Le Miroir de Cassandre (2009)

Pascal Quignard, Lycophron et Zétès (2010)

Alice Oswald, Memorial (2011)  

Dimitris Dimitriadis, Ὁ εὐαγγελισμὸς τῆς Κασσάνδρας. Γεννητικὸ ἄγγελμα [The Annunciation of Cassandra] (2012) 

Dimitris Dimitriadis, Ἐκκένωση [Devastation] (2013) 

Robert Icke, Oresteia (2015)  

Sharma Shields, The Cassandra (2019)  

Jason Pizzarello, As if, Cassandra (2020)  

Pat Barker, The Women at Troy (2021)   

Sandra Moussempès, Cassandre à bout portant (2021)

Taban Lo, After Troy (2021)  

Pat Barker, The Voyage Home: A Novel (2024)