Machaut's Court of Love Narratives and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Pelen, Marc M.

Title
Machaut's Court of Love Narratives and Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Chaucer Review 11 (1976): 128-55.

Description
The French narrative poems of Machaut and Froissart reveal the source of the voice in Chaucer's early poems. Even though BD imitates the conventions of its French models, it shows how Chaucer adapted the conventions to his own use.

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