SOURCE: "Emulous Factions and the Collapse of Chivalry: Troilus and Cressida" in Representations, No. 29, Winter, 1990, pp. 145-79.
In the excerpt below, Mallin suggests that the misogynistic and homoerotic ambiguity and violence in the play reflect England's ambivalence toward the aging, increasingly less powerful and heirless Queen Elizabeth I.
