Category: Troilus and Cressida

The world of Shakespeares Troilus and Cressida does not distinguish decidedly between the Greeks and the Trojans. Though the Greek camp is a makeshift assembly of tents pitched on the shores of Troy, and the Trojan society is the courtly palace of Priam and his sons, both societies value the same ideas and objects: honor…

A problem play is a play in which the playwright portrays the social, political and economic problems of the society he lives in. The problem play is a development form of the drama of ideas’ (Drama of ideas is a type of discussion play in which the most acute problems of social and personal morality…

In many ways, Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure are examples of his ‘problem plays’ that are concerned with self-division and lack of self-knowledge. The former play deals with the duality of the characters and it is in the knowledge or lack of knowledge in this duality between the characters which makes it…