“MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY”

“MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY”

“MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY” “MAKE A VIRTUE OF NECESSITY,” counsels one of the outlaws in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Act 4, scene 1), but this is also Cressida’s rationalization of her betrayal in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde (ca. 1374).