Shakespeare Collection - the Two Gentlemen of Verona and Troilus and Cressida

The Two Gentlemen Of Verona Is A Comedy By William Shakespeare, Believed To Have Been Written Between 1589 And 1592. It Is Considered By Some To Be Shakespeare's First Play, And Is Often Seen As Showing His First Tentative Steps In Laying Out Some Of The Themes And Motifs With Which He Would Later Deal In More Detail; For Example, It Is The First Of His Plays In Which A Heroine Dresses As A Boy. Troilus And Cressida Is A Tragedy By William Shakespeare, Believed To Have Been Written In 1602. The Play (also Described As One Of Shakespeare's Problem Plays) Is Not A Conventional Tragedy, Since Its Protagonist (troilus) Does Not Die. The Play Ends Instead On A Very Bleak Note With The Death Of The Noble Trojan Hector And Destruction Of The Love Between Troilus And Cressida. Throughout The Play, The Tone Lurches Wildly Between Bawdy Comedy And Tragic Gloom, And Readers And Theatre-goers Have Frequently Found It Difficult To Understand How One Is Meant To Respond To The Characters.