The Game of Chess in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Bolens, Guillemette, and Paul Beekman Taylor.

Title
The Game of Chess in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'

Published
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 325-34.

Description
At the beginning of BD, the Black Knight has an inaccurate conception of how chess is played. The misconception must be corrected by the narrator as the poem progresses and before the castle bell strikes midday and the game, the hunt, and the poem all end.

Contributor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.