Stalking the Sorrowful H(e)art: Penitential Lore and the Hunt Scene in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Shoaf, R[ichard] A[llen].
Stalking the Sorrowful H(e)art: Penitential Lore and the Hunt Scene in Chaucer's 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 78 (1979): 313-24.
- Description
- The poet in BD takes the role of confessor and "medicus animae" to the Black Knight, whose shrift and repentance return him to the duties of everyday living. The hunt, which sets the scene, is an allegorical image of the process of confession pointing out the obvious ambiguity of the hart/heart imagery.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.