...Holly A. Crocker This article argues that Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida continues an important late medieval poetic tradition that highlights the troubling consequences of virtue’s performativity for idealized women. If Chaucer is pessimistic about the potential for Criseyde’s ethical agency...

... In each eye one. Swear by your double self, And there’s an oath of credit. (5.1.243  –  46) Indeed, the multiplication of oaths signals not a strengthening of the origi- nal pledge, but rather its weakening — it becomes “truth tired with itera- tion” (Troilus and Cressida 3.2.172), as Troilus...

... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979). For an earlier analysis of the relation of uncertainty to rage, see Laura Levine, “ Troilus and Cressida and the Politics of Rage,” in Men in Women's Clothing , 26–43; and Levine, “This Is, and Is Not, Knowledge: Cressida and the Titillation of Male...

... body that intercession makes. This sexual dimension of intercession is presented in a number of Shakespeare’s other plays, including Much Ado about Nothing, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, but especially Othello, the play whose creation is likely to have directly preceded...

... and Cressida” (“The Likely Misascription of ‘Cardenio’ in Part to Shakespeare,” Neuphilologische Mittei- lungen 97 [1996]: 226). Fleissner recognizes the influence of Cervantes on Fletcher and Theobald, but is not interested in exploring the issue. 22 Tomás Pabón, “Cardenio en Cervantes...

... and Cressida Prol. 1) —  capture the contingency of fictional space with respect to performance space. In general, Shakespeare’s scenes “lie”: they occupy a space that is both performative and fictional. When those two measures of Global space are fused, the result is phenomenal space, a space...

... players” (1 Henry IV 2.4.393), “merely players” (As You Like It 2.7.140), “a strutting player” (Troilus 1.3.153), “a poor player” (Macbeth 5.4.24).5 Plays in which both terms occur are interestingly concentrated in the middle of Shakespeare’s career (As You Like It, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida...

... socially accessible form in Shakespeare’s plays through the common pun on “hairs” and “heirs.” In Troilus and Cressida, Pandarus describes how Helen had spied a white hair on Triolus’ chin and said: “Here’s but two and fifty hairs on your chin — and one of them is white...

..., W. R. Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida” and the Inns of Court Rev- els. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000. xi, 201 pp. $59.95. Cornett / New Books across the Disciplines 681 Gaskill, Malcolm. Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England. Cam- bridge Studies...