ABSTRACT
Troilus and Cressida is more peculiarly analytic in language and dramatic meaning than any other work of Shakespeare. Often it has been called difficult, incoherent. It may be superficially difficult, but it is not incoherent. The difficulties, moreover, being essentially those of intellectual complexity, lend themselves naturally to intellectual interpretation. When once we see clearly the central idea-it is almost a ‘thesis’—from which the play’s thought and action derive their significance, most of the difficulties vanish.
