"Derring-do."
- Author / Editor
- Manzalaoui, M. A.
"Derring-do."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 207 (1962): 369-70.
- Description
- Assesses the syntax and meanings of "derring-do" or "dorynge-do" in John Lydgate's "Troy Book," which follows in the first instance Chaucer's uses of the phrase to describe Troilus in TC 5.837-40.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde