The History of Cressida
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Valerie.
The History of Cressida
- Published
- J. A. Jowitt and R. K. S. Taylor, eds. Self and Society in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure. Bradford Centre Occasional Papers, no. 4 (Bradford: University of Leeds Department of Adult and Continuing Education, 1982), pp. 61-79.
- Description
- Smith assesses characterizations of Criseyde, focusing on Chaucer's, Henryson's, and Shakespeare's characterizations but commenting on others. She argues that the character must be understood in light of contemporaneous attitudes toward, for example, war and the status of women.
- Contributor
- Jowitt, J. A., ed.
- Taylor, R. K. S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Self and Society in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.