Sweet Poison and Its Antidote: Troilus and Criseyde and the 'Disce mori'
- Author / Editor
- Kern-Stähler, Annette.
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.