Excerpt from Shakespeare's History of Troilous and Cressida The date Of the play cannot be determined with any certainty. In 1599 Dekker and Chettle were preparing a play on the same subject, and an entry in the Sta tioners' Registers, dated February 7, 1602 - 03, proves that a Troilus and Cressida had been acted by Shake speare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Servants. This may possibly have been an early draught of Shake speare's play. Internal evidence is partly in favour Of a date as early as this, and partly Of one some five or Six years later. Some critics have therefore decided that the play was written as early as 1602 or 1603, while others put it as late as 1608 or 1609. More likely, as Verplanck, White, and others believe, it was first writ ten as early as 1602, and revised and enlarged some where between 1606 and 1609. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.