INTRO: OW: Hello and welcome to False as Cressid, where I analyze Early Modern, Romantic, and Victorian era prints of Cressida in Shakespeare’s gendered reception of Troilus and Cressida! My name is Olivia, and I am a current senior at the University of Alabama, majoring in English and History, with a minor in Medieval andContinue reading “Epilogue”
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Episode #3- Cressida, Troilus, and Diomedes
DISCLAIMER: OW: Prints/images utilized in this podcast are a select few of the much larger array of Shakespearean prints of Troilus and Cressida. All interpretations are my own with the understanding that, with the accessible prints available to me online, my conclusions are based on a small portion of a much larger canon. INTRODUCTION: OW:Continue reading “Episode #3- Cressida, Troilus, and Diomedes”
Episode #2: Cressida and Pandarus
INTRO OW: Cressida’s words in Act III, Scene II ironically prophesize her fate by the end of William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. “If I be false or swerve a hair from truth/ when time is old and hath forgot itself… let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, / as false as Cressid.”[1] TheContinue reading “Episode #2: Cressida and Pandarus”
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