Pawn Takes Knight's Queen : Playing with Chess in the Book of the Duchess
- Author / Editor
- Adams, Jenny.
Pawn Takes Knight's Queen : Playing with Chess in the Book of the Duchess
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 125-38, 1999.
- Description
- In BD, Chaucer complicates the chess metaphor by adding the concept of gambling, which had become standard both in literary depiction and in actual play. By doing so, he adds an economic dimension, characterizing marriage relationships in the Middle Ages and Gaunt's own relationship with Duchess Blanche.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.