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Shakespeare did not write his plays with a view to making them fit into categories. He actually didn't care much for categories, and was always trying new ideas. As a result, the characteristics which we might adopt for a category of play may not fit. One of the most difficult plays to categorize is Troilus and Cressida. Unlike the comedies, the lovers do not get together and marry at the end; instead they are separated. Unlike the tragedies, there is not a heap of corpses at the end and the main characters are all alive at the end. Unlike the histories it is based on legend. What do you make of that? Some scholars have invented a new category just so they can put Troilus and Cressida in it.

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