Chaucer and Chess
- Author / Editor
- Connolly, Margaret.
Chaucer and Chess
- Published
- Chaucer Review 29 (1994): 40-44.
- Description
- The references to chess in BD are confused because Chaucer seems not to have had any firsthand knowledge of the game, his source being not a proper handbook but the "Roman de la Rose." Applying the chess metaphor from Jean de Meun to a dissimilar situation in BD, Chaucer adds to the ambiguity in the character of the Dreamer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.