Shakespeare, Chaucer, and 'False Cressida': A Reinterpretation
- Author / Editor
- Hurst, Mary L.
Shakespeare, Chaucer, and 'False Cressida': A Reinterpretation
- Published
- Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 8 : 1-8, 1983.
- Description
- Hurst argues that Shakespeare's Cressida is an "embryonic feminist"; Cressida compares favorably with Chaucer's Criseyde, who was elsewhere demeaned in subsequent accounts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.