The Tragedy of Misogyny in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida Resounding Homer's Illiad, Shakespeare refers to in the introduction to Troilus and Cressida that the Trojan war emitted in view of the grab of Helen: 'Menelaus' sovereign,/With wanton Paris dozes – and that is the fight' [prologue, 9-10]. We consequently accept from the start that the war plot [and all the disasters that happen because of it] exists in view of this lady, while in the adoration plot it is the disloyalty of Cressida which makes catastrophe by devastating any expectation of sentimental love making due in the play. It shows up then that the catastrophe in the play circles around these two ladies, yet whether they can be considered by and by answerable for this is far fetched. Shakespeare reflects the epic custom of starting his play in medias res; most definitely, the war has been steady.
