'The Book of the Duchess': The Date of Composition Related to the Theme of Impracticality
- Author / Editor
- Vickery, Gwen M.
'The Book of the Duchess': The Date of Composition Related to the Theme of Impracticality
- Published
- Essays in Literature (Malcomb, IL) 22 (1995): 161-69.
- Description
- Argues that BD was composed after John of Gaunt made plans to remarry--or even after his second marriage--and that the poem constitutes both an elegy on the death of Blanche and a "carefully argued justification of Gaunt's second marriage." Further, this justification is covertly undercut, indicating Chaucer's disapproval of the marriage to Constance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Chaucer's Life.