Structure and Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Philips, Helen.

Title
Structure and Consolation in the 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Chaucer Review 16 (1981): 107-18.

Description
Critics differ in their assessment of the structure and the nature of the consolation in BD. Chaucer uses juxtaposition as his structural principle. The consolation is Boethian, transcending the intensity of human grief, but Chaucer insists upon the reality of the grief as well.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.