The 'Book of the Duchess': Hunting and the 'Ubi Sunt' Tradition

Author / Editor
Rooney, Anne.

Title
The 'Book of the Duchess': Hunting and the 'Ubi Sunt' Tradition

Published
Review of English Studies 38 (1987): 299-314.

Description
Reviews scholarship and examines the hunt in BD in the context of other portrayals of the hunt in medieval literature. Because of its portrayal of sudden and shocking death, the "ubi sunt" tradition is an appropriate context: the poem ends with the dreamer's question, "Where is she now?"

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.