@article{2017,title={SHAKESPEARE’S TROILUS AND CRESSIDA AS A PROBLEM PLAY},abstractNode={This paper focuses on the problem play elements in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. There are such elements in and about this play that enable the critics to categorize it as a problem play. Publication problems, elements of comedy, satire, and irony, elements of tragedy, problems with the unity of action, its tragic plot, and Shakespearean concept of tragedy, Shakespeare`s sources and possible reason for his alterations compared to his sources, and his characterization are the major reasons for the argument of this paper. Comments by certain critics will also be provided to help reinforce the problematic issues of Troilus and Cressida. All such arguments are clear indications of how Shakespeare’s Troilus and Criseyde is constructed deliberately by Shakespeare in its current state which is termed as a problem play recently.},author={Ekmel Emrah HAKMAN},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}