The 'Book of the Duchess' Again

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
The 'Book of the Duchess' Again

Published
English Studies 67 (1986): 122-25.

Description
The textual tradition shows that the major and perhaps sole manuscript used by Thynne lacked lines 31-96. The borrowings from the French alleged by Helen Phillips for this passage are commonplaces. No reliable evidence proves that Chaucer composed the lines.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.