During which war was Shakespeare's play 'Troilus And Cressida' set?
Troilus and Cressida for dramatists in the early 17th century and Shakespeare may have been inspired by contemporary plays. Thomas Heywood's two-part play "The Iron Age" also depicts the Trojan war and the story of Troilus and Cressida, but it is not certain whether his or Shakespeare's play was written first. In addition, Thomas Dekker and Henry Chettle wrote a play called "Troilus and Cressida" at around the same time as Shakespeare, but this play survives only as a fragmentary plot outline. The play is believed to have been written around 1602, shortly after the completion of "Hamlet". It was published in quarto
Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida Troilus and Cressida () is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida. The work has in recent years "stimulated exceptionally lively critical debate". Throughout the play, the tone lurches wildly between bawdy comedy and tragic gloom, and readers and theatre-goers have frequently found it difficult to understand how one is meant to respond to