SOURCE: "Criseyde Becoming Cressida: Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida," in The Swan at the Well: Shakespeare Reading Chaucer, Yale University Press, 1985, pp. 74-94.
In the essay below, Donaldson compares Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare 's Cressida, and claims that "though in many ways dissimilar, [they are in some important ways alike; and have equally valid claims on our sympathy. "]
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