The "Corones Tweyne": An Interpretation.

Author / Editor
Malarkey, Stoddard.

Title
The "Corones Tweyne": An Interpretation.

Published
Speculum 38 (1963): 473-78.

Description
Interprets Pandarus's reference to "corones tweyne" (TC 2.1735) as "a highly complex symbol of the two main pillars of mediaeval law and authority--the spiritual and temporal powers of the church and the state," forbidding Criseyde from killing Troilus by refusing him.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde