Engraving of 1800, by Charles Warren (1762 - 1823) from a painting by Thomas Kirk (1765 - 1797), used in an edition of Shakespeare's play, Act I, Scene II: Crésida, together with Pándaro, observes the Trojan caudillos.
Crésida is a character that appears in several medieval and Renaissance literary works about the Trojan War, although not in the texts of antiquity on the same subject. He is one of the key characters in the story of Troilus and Cressida, appearing for the first time in the French Roman de Troie in the 12th century, but which will also be narrated by Boccaccio (Filostrato), Chaucer (Troilus and Criseyde) and Shakespeare ( Troilus and Cressida).
It is a Greek woman, captured and turned into a slave by the Trojans, who falls in love with the Trojan prince Troilus, to whom he swears eternal love. However, when it is returned to the Greeks in a prisoner exchange, it becomes the lover of the Achaean hero Diomedes, which drives Troilus mad.
Not to be confused with Criseida, character of the Iliad.
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