In another play, a male character declares that "all is dross that is not" this character, and asks her to "make me immortal with a kiss."
A play titled for this character is the origin of the saying: "Nothing has more strength than dire necessity." In one play, after being informed that her current husband plans to sacrifice her, this character flees forward in time to a castle, where she is taught to speak in rhyme by her future husband. In another play, a male character declares that "all is dross that is not" this character, and asks her to "make me immortal with a kiss." An eidolon ("EYE-doh-lawn") of this character is stowed in a cave but then vanishes, while the real version of this character is found in Egypt by her shipwrecked husband in a play titled for her by Euripides. Before kissing this character, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus asks: "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" For 10 points, name this mythological beauty, who leaves her husband Menelaus ("men-uh-LAY-us") for the prince Paris, thus causing the Trojan War.
A play titled for this character is the origin of the saying: "Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."
Helen of Troy [or Helen of Sparta; or Helena] &lt;Drama&gt;