Cressida's

I was a bit less sure about Troilus and Cressida (because of Cressida's abrupt switch of loyalties), and by the odd sexual politics of All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure, though both could be very impressive in the right hands.

Ulster etymology nwhyte 2009

Cressida gets traded to the Greeks in exchange for a captive Trojan soldier; the lovers vow fidelity, but Troilus's messages are hidden by Cressida's servant Evadne, who thinks that it would be safer for Cressida to marry the Greek captain Diomede.

Where Love and Politics Intersect 2008

Only the final tableau -- Cressida's suicide, using a hanging dummy -- didn't work.

Where Love and Politics Intersect 2008

As Troilus, tenor Roger Honeywell's top notes sounded a little tight, but the two singers worked well together, with Walton's music clearly evoking Cressida's longing, Troilus's frantic eagerness, and the eroticism of their affair.

Where Love and Politics Intersect 2008

Even before Shakespeare wrote his play, Cressida's name had become a byword for womanly inconstancy.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

Men are weak, too, in their way, but in Cressida's own eyes that does not excuse her infidelity.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The account of Cressida's abandoning Troilus when she is sent back from Troy to her Greek father Calchas, where she takes up with the Grecian Diomedes, proved to be immensely distressing to readers of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

The Cressida's registration number began with the letters MVV.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

Chaucer does not want her to yield to disquisitions and descriptions; all the cleverness of Pandarus is there only to make us better appreciate the slow inward working that is going on in Cressida's heart; her uncle will have sufficed to stir her; that is all, and, truth to say, that is something.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Cressida's interest is excited at once, the more so that reticence is not habitual to Pandarus; her curiosity, irritated from line to line, becomes anxiety, almost anguish, for though Cressida be of the fourteenth century, and the first of a long line of heroines of romance, with her appears already the nervous woman.

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand