Traitor Calchas in Chaucer's and Shakespeare's Versions of the Troilus-Criseyde/Cressida Story

Author / Editor
Kapera, Marta.

Title
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.