SOURCE: Oates, J. C. “The Ambiguity of Troilus and Cressida.” Shakespeare Quarterly 17, no. 2 (spring 1966): 141-50.
In the following essay, Oates studies the conflict between tragic and anti-tragic elements in Troilus and Cressida, contending that the play is best understood as a tragedy that has been purposefully undermined by brutal comic insight.
