The Game of Chess in Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Bolens, Guillemette, and Paul Beekman Taylor.
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.