Sweet Poison and Its Antidote: Troilus and Criseyde and the 'Disce mori'

Author / Editor
Kern-Stähler, Annette.

Title
Sweet Poison and Its Antidote: Troilus and Criseyde and the 'Disce mori'

Published
Anglistik 21.2 (2010): 171-79.

Description
Assesses the location and implications of one stanza from TC (1.400-406) as quoted in the "Disce mori," a fifteenth-century manual of religious instruction addressed to "Dame Alice." The quotation indicates that some may have read TC as a warning against secular love.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.