Language and Value in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
Document Type
Article
Department
English (Scripps)
Publication Date
Spring 1981
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Reading and Language
Abstract
Among the ironies involved in this piece of "monumental mock'ry" is that Troilus and Cressida offers the quintessential expression of the Elizabethan idea of order. Ulysses' degree speech, amidst a context of chaos and at a time in history when it has all but ceased to apply.
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© 1981 Rice University
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DOI
10.2307/450149
Recommended Citation
Greene, Gayle, “Language and Value in ‘Troilus and Cressida’,” Studies in English Literature 21(2) (Spring, 1981), pp. 271-285
