Chaucer and Chess

Author / Editor
Connolly, Margaret.

Title
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.