"Who dies at the end of Shakespeare's tragedy ""Troilus and Cressida""?"
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
Troilus and Cressida how Shakespeare's tone is changing from light comic to intensely tragic. Literary critic and scholar Joyce Carol Oates wrote that in reality these shifts complimented the values Shakespeare questioned in the play, love, honour, and hierarchy. She argued that this problem play is in fact remarkably modern for its time. According to Oates' interpretation, Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" is indeed one of his most intriguing plays ever written. She believed Shakespeare wrote a grand existential statement with "Troilus and Cressida", and that it was a new kind of contemporary tragedy. The story of Troilus and Cressida is a medieval tale