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Troilus and Cressida: Q & ADid Shakespeare intend Troilus and Cressida to be a comedy?According to Shakespearean scholar Jackson J. Campbell, although Troilus and Cressida is today classified as a comedy, the editors of the First Folio originally scheduled the play to be included in the section containing the tragedies. Due to a conflict with the printer, however, Troilus and Cressida was published after the rest of the tragedies, and thus was placed in between the histories and the tragedies, after Henry VIII and before Coriolanus. What sources did Shakespeare use in writing Troilus and Cressida? Shakespeare relied upon several sources as he composed Troilus and Cressida, including translations of Homer's Iliad by George Chapman and William Caxton, and Geoffrey Chaucer's epic poem Troilus and Cressida. How to cite this article: _________ More Resources  Daily Life in Shakespeare's London Life in Stratford (structures and guilds) Life in Stratford (trades, laws, furniture, hygiene) Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? Games in Shakespeare's England [A-L] Games in Shakespeare's England [M-Z] An Elizabethan Christmas Clothing in Elizabethan England Queen Elizabeth: Shakespeare's Patron King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's Patron Going to a Play in Elizabethan London Ben Jonson and the Decline of the Drama Publishing in Elizabethan England Shakespeare's Audience Religion in Shakespeare's England Entertainment in Elizabethan England London's First Public Playhouse Shakespeare Hits the Big Time
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"The fact is, that Shakespeare never, whether in comedy or tragedy, ends in the pathetic key, a point to which I shall return later. That there is an admixture of compassion in these great scenes is true; but the passions with which it is commingled are so agitating, the action so frantic, the consequences so prodigious, that pity is smothered up in dismay. At the very end, to be sure, the winds fall and cease, and the waves break back on themselves in a mighty subsidence; but it is the calm of a supreme exaltation." J. F. Pyre. ©1999-2021 Shakespeare Online. All Rights Reserved.