The trouble with Troilus
No, it's not Les Miz, even if it looks like it. Photo(s): Stratton McCradyOf all Shakespeare's "problem" plays, none may be more problematic than Troilus and Cressida. In it, the Bard yokes together a savage parody of the Iliad with a poignant, but derivative, romance (the inconstant Cressida does not appear in Homer, or anywhere else in Attic literature; she is a medieval invention). The t…