The 'Book of the Duchess' and the Mutability Theme
- Author / Editor
- Rooney, Anne.
The 'Book of the Duchess' and the Mutability Theme
- Published
- Anne Rooney. Hunting in Middle English Literature (Woodbridge, Suffolk;
- and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell & Brewer, 1993), pp. 140-58.
- Description
- Surveys critical assessments of the hunting episode in BD, explicates details of the episode, and reads it as a representation of worldly bliss. The episode and the allusion to the hunt near the end of the poem frame the Black Knight's account of woe, offering not consolation but acknowledgement of the alternation between bliss and woe in this world.
- Alternative Title
- Hunting in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.