SOURCE: "What Cressid Is," in Sexuality and Politics in Renaissance Drama, edited by Carole Levin and Karen Robertson, The Edwin Mellon Press, 1991, pp. 75-93.
In the following essay, Adams examines Cressida's inner struggle between being in love and protecting her own identity, contending that "both poles remain simultaneously a part of her personality, intensifying the tension."
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