The Ceyx and Alceone Story in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Hollis, Stephanie.

Title
The Ceyx and Alceone Story in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Published
Parergon 19 (1977): 3-9.

Description
The dreamer's experience in BD is an amplification of the Ceyx and Alceone story. The Black Knight and the dreamer may be seen as the same person, the dream providing a means of facing the fact of death.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.