Traitor Calchas in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Versions of the Troilus-Criseyde/Cressida Story
- Author / Editor
- Kapera, Marta.
Traitor Calchas in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Versions of the Troilus-Criseyde/Cressida Story
- Published
- Władysław Witalisz, ed. "And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche": Studies on Language and Literature in Honour of Professor Dr. Karl Heinz Göller (Krakw: Wydawnictno Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2001), pp. 9-16.
- Description
- Chaucer presents Calchus as both a father in misery and a "sheer opportunist," enabling us to see Criseyde's decision as her own. Shakespeare's Calchus is a manipulator; his Cressida, the object of manipulation.
- Contributor
- Witalisz, Władysław, ed.
- Alternative Title
- And Gladly Wolde He Lerne and Gladly Teche (Goller).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.