Language: English
Published in: 1602
Word count: 27,192 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Copyright: Public Domain
Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play ends instead on a very bleak note with the death of the noble… (more)
Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a...