Cressid

Still, all this great and moving romance would have been impossible without the idea of Cressid's successive sojourn in Troy and the Greek camp, and of her successive courtship by Troilus and by

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Chaucer dwells at great length upon the earlier and pleasing portion of the tale, more especially on the falling in love of Cressid, which is worked out with admirable naturalness.

Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880

He also mightily extols Troilus; but he does not intimate any special connection between the two, or tell the story of "Cressid," which indeed his followers elaborated in terms not altogether consistent with some of the above laudatory epithets.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

Few words to fair faith: Troilus shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can speak truest not truer than Troilus.

Troilus and Cressida 2004

She is more sceptically attuned to the possibility that her name will be registered in fame by the phrase 'As false as Cressid', not because she plans to be false to him but because she is more of a realist.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven: 180

Act V. Scene II. Troilus and Cressida 1914

Few words to fair faith: Troilus shall be such to Cressid, as what envy can say worst shall be a mock for his truth; and what truth can speak truest not truer than Troilus.

Act III. Scene II. Troilus and Cressida 1914

Who Cleopatra, fleshpot of Egypt, and Cressid and Venus are we may guess.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

And this he did willingly enough, for from the moment he took up the subject he identified the Queen of Egypt with his own faithless mistress, Mary Fitton, whom he had already tried to depict as “false Cressid.”

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909

Mary Fitton's hair, we know, was raven-black, but the evidence connecting Shakespeare's mistress with “false Cressid” is stronger, as we shall see, than any particular line or expression.

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909