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Stiller, Nikki

Figure of Cressida in British and American Literature Transformation of a Literary Type
1990 0-88946-397-2
Traces this controversial figure characterized by sexual allure and treachery from its Homeric beginnings in the minor characters of Chryseis and Briseis through its period of greatest popularity, the sixth through sixteenth centuries, to its reappearance in modern form today.