Criseyde/Cresseid/Cressida: What's in a Name?

Author / Editor
Sepherd, Robert K. .

Title
Criseyde/Cresseid/Cressida: What's in a Name?

Published
Sederi: Journal of the Spanish Society for English Renaissance Studies 4 : 229-36, 1993.

Description
Considers Shakespeare's Cressida to be a "delicate literary graft" of the ambiguous aloofness of Chaucer's Criseyde and the "frankness personified" of Henryson's Cresseid.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.