XVI.—The Troilus-Cressida Story From Chaucer to Shakespeare

Autor:	Hyder E. Rollins
Rok vydání:	1917
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Language and Linguistics
Zdroj:	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 32:383-429
ISSN:	1938-1530 0030-8129
DOI:	10.1632/457022
Popis:	Viewed from any angle Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida is an unattractive play. The heroine is a wanton. Ulysses reads her at a glance and finds language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look outAt every joint and motive of her body.He sets her down at once as “a daughter of the game,” and at every opportunity the foul-mouthed Thersites corroborates this description. “They say Diomedes keeps a Trojan drab,” he monologizes, “and uses the traitor Calchas his tent. I'll after; ”2 and in the rather awkward scene in which Cressida's perfidy is revealed to Troilus, he gleefully whispers: “Any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff. She's noted.”
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