Looking at Death: A Study in the Literary and Historical Background of Chacuer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Thoms, John Clifton.

Title
Looking at Death: A Study in the Literary and Historical Background of Chacuer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 42 (1981): 208A.

Description
The narrator's eight-year sickness may refer to the last illness of Henry, Duke of Lancaster. The portrait of Lady White departs significantly from that of Machaut's lady in "Jugement dou Roy de Behaingne" to reconcile courtly with Christian love.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.