canon. On the title pages of the Quarto of 1609 it is described as a “Historie.” But in the First Folio of 1623 it is called The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida. In the Folio the play is not listed in the table of contents (the “Catalogue of the Several Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies contained in this Volume”), and it is placed after the last of the history plays and before the first of the tragedies.
