ABSTRACT
William Shakespeare's Ulysses appears in one of his lesser known and, until recently, less appreciated and less performed plays, Troilus and Cressida. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this is that it is his most bitter and troubling play that belongs to his middle period plays known as the problem plays. Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes were both uneducated provincials who were looked down on by their university-trained fellows. Miguel de Cervantes was employed in a minor capacity in provisioning the Armada and William Shakespeare mocked its defeat in the person of Don Armado from Loves' Labour's Lost. Don Quixote has from the start been looked upon as a hilarious comedy, a pleasant entertainment appealing to all classes of people, whether high-born or low-born, learned or ignorant, rich or poor, having universal appeal due to its geniality. Cervantes prided himself on having produced a work with these qualities of accessibility.
