Editing Cressida (section)

== In popular culture ==

In "[[The Myth Makers]]", a 1965 storyline by  [[Donald Cotton]] in the [[Time travel|time-travel]]–based British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the character [[Vicki (Doctor Who)|Vicki]] (played by [[Maureen O'Brien]]), a teenaged travelling [[Companion (Doctor Who)|companion]] of [[Doctor (Doctor Who)|the Doctor]], meets [[Priam]], King of [[Troy]] who, disliking her name, dubs her Cressida. During the course of the story, Vicki/Cressida falls in love with Priam's son Troilus, and after the fall of Troy elects to stay with Troilus and rebuild the city. The story inverts the traditional fates of Troilus and Cressida, a change made to facilitate the departure of the Vicki character (and actress O'Brien) from the series.

The name ''Cressida'' is sometimes given, as a literary [[allusion]], as a first name to faithless characters. In his 1969 novel ''[[Clean Straw for Nothing]]'' [[George Johnston (novelist)|George Johnston]]'s wife [[Charmian Clift]] is the basis for the character Cressida Morley; academics Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell suggest in their 2018 book ''Half the Perfect World'' that it was the impending publication of Johnston's novel, which Clift knew would lay bare her infidelities whilst on the island of Hydra, which prompted her to suicide in 1969.<ref>P. Genoni and T. Dalziell. 2018. ''Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964.'' Clayton: Monash University Press. p.404.</ref>   In the 2005 movie ''[[Hitch (film)|Hitch]]'', a flashback scene shows the character of Cressida Baylor (played by Robinne Lee) betray the fidelity of the main character Hitch (played by [[Will Smith]]), thus negatively affecting his judgement and attitude toward love and women.

The progressive rock band [[Cressida (band)|Cressida]] is named after the character.

The [[Toyota Cressida]], a mid-size car manufactured until 1992, was named after the character.