Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'Guy of Warwick'

Author / Editor
Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.

Title
Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess' and 'Guy of Warwick'

Published
Papers on Language and Literature 11 (1975): 404-07.

Description
"Guy of Warwick" served as an object of serious imitation as well as parody. The scene in BD engaging the dreamer with the man in black as traceable to this source, as are the deliberately naive questioner and other such devices for achieving dramatic irony.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.