That’s because the publishers obtained the rights to Troilus and Cressida very late in the process-too late to include it on this page, which was already printed by then.
You may notice there are only 35 plays listed, even though there are 36 plays in the First Folio. The Tempest leads off the comedies, even though Shakespeare wrote it late in his career, while Coriolanus heads the tragedies. They also made sure to place a “new” play (one that wasn’t already available in print in a quarto) at the start of both the comedies and the tragedies. Most of the history plays that were previously printed were already named for kings, but not all of them. They named the history plays according to the kings who reigned during the events in the plays and put the plays in the order of the kings’ reigns. Heminge and Condell grouped Shakespeare’s plays in the First Folio into three categories for the first time: the comedies, the histories, and the tragedies.
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