SOURCE: Greenfield, Matthew A. “Fragments of Nationalism in Troilus and Cressida.” Shakespeare Quarterly 51, no. 2 (summer 2000): 181-200.
In the following essay, Greenfield argues that by depicting Troy as decadent and corrupt in Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare undercut England's efforts to build national pride by connecting its ancestry as a nation to the heroic and ancient city of Troy.
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