Understanding the Man in Black
- Author / Editor
- Morse, Ruth.
Understanding the Man in Black
- Published
- Chaucer Review 15 (1981): 204-208.
- Description
- Chaucer's audience would not have come to BD with our preconceptions (that the Man is John of Gaunt and that his song is personal). Rather, they would have experienced the gradual revelations as they are unfolded and would have concerned themselves with the Man rather than the Dreamer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.