"Derring-do."

Author / Editor
Manzalaoui, M. A.

Title
"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