Troilus and Criseyde
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Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It
Geoffrey Chaucer reciting before nobles
A Scene from Troilus and Cressida Angelica Kauffmann
Troilus and Cressida
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The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, often shortened to Troilus and Cressida, is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602.
Troilus and Criseyde
…example, John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes (c. 1449), adapt language and authorship strategies from the famous predecessor poem. Shakespeare's tragedy Troilus and Cressida, although much darker in tone, was also based in part on the material. Troilus and Criseyde is usually considered to be a courtly romance, although the…
Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida, John Opie (c. 1800)
Print, from a painting by E. J. Poynter, in The Graphic Gallery of Shakespeare's Heroines (1896)
Cassandra, Troilus and Cressida, Edwin Austin Abbey (c. 1908)
Diomed and Cressida (from William Shakespeare's 'Troilus and Cressida', Act V, scene ii), Angelika Kauffmann (1789)