SOURCE: "'Suited in Like Conditions as our Argument': Imitative Form in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida," in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. XV, No. 2, Spring, 1975, pp. 273-92.
In the essay below, Fly centers on the discontinuity of Troilus and Cressida, observing that "our expectations of formal stability, symmetry, and coherent sequence are repeatedly being frustrated, and we experience as we follow the play unfolding a growing sense of radical disorientation—an apprehension which we gradually come to realize is complementing the informing vision of the play."