When trying to write this wrap-up piece on Troilus and Cressida, I kept thinking it needed a subtitle. But what to use? I came up with two almost immediately:
How do you solve a problem like Cressida? (with apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein)
or
Troilus and Cressida: How I learned to stop worrying and love (OK, like) the play
Do I focus on the misogyny that I found in the play (thus, the first subtitle)? Or do I go with the undercut heroic and romantic expectations in the play that lead to my revelation a few weeks ago that the play is a tragedy with Pandarus as our tragic hero?
It’s such a strange play.