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rnIdealized Femininity and how Criseyde failed to fulfill it rnHolly Crocker on William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Criseydernrn Shakespeare’s character Criseyde is infamously known as a symbol of female mutability, seduceability, and caballing phoniness. The English language knows the term »as false as Cressid«, and most texts and poems dealing with this fictitious character primarily depict her neagative aspects instead of her love to Troilus, the male hero of Troilus and Criseyde.rnrn
Holly Crocker is professor of English literature at the University of South Carolina and has been a guest at the Institute for Advanced Studies from May to December 2011, with her larger project »The Reformation of Feminine Virtue from Chaucer to Shakespeare«.rnrn To the whole essay on the homepage of the Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (FKH - 28.06.2013)
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