Understanding the Man in Black

Author / Editor
Morse, Ruth.

Title
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.