Cressida Metamorphosed

Author / Editor
Oyama, Toshiko.

Title
Cressida Metamorphosed

Published
PoeticaT 4 (1976): 60-78.

Description
Compares Chaucer's characterization of Criseyde, Henryson's of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's of Cressida, assessing Shakespeare's "transformation" of the character as typical of "Jacobean sensibility."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion