ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Although there is mention of the play in the Stationer’s Register in 1603, its first publication was in Quarto form in 1609. Critical opinion has generally agreed that stylistically it is likely the play was written between 1600 and 1603, at a similar time to when Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Measure for Measure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Troilus and Criseyde has been compared to an epic poem (the resemblance is slight, but the form is evoked by epic invocations at the beginning of books One through Four), a five act renaissance tragedy, and a modern psychological novel, among other things.