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Cressida

[kres-i-duh]

noun

  1. (in medieval adaptations of the story of the Trojan wars) a Trojan woman portrayed as the lover of Troilus, whom she deserts for Diomedes.



Cressida

/ ˈkrɛsɪdə /

noun

  1. (in medieval adaptations of the story of Troy) a lady who deserts her Trojan lover Troilus for the Greek Diomedes

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US reviewer Rooney describes director Marc Webb's work a "vibrant retelling" with a "smart script" from Erin Cressida Wilson.

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Webb and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson had two options: Mimic the 1937 cartoon shot for shot and be slammed for the craven inessentiality of such an exercise, or change anything and face fans’ wrath.

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Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu, and Cressida Gethin originally received four-year jail terms for their involvement in the same protest.

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The Reading Rights Summit will also hear from fellow authors Cressida Cowell and Michael Rosen, two of his predecessors as children's laureate.

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For his first show in New York, Mandvi played Hector in Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida.”

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