The Book for the Duchess: Alcyone and White

Author / Editor
Haruta, Setsuko.

Title
The Book for the Duchess: Alcyone and White

Published
Hisao Tsuru, ed. Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature (Tokyo: Kirihara Shoten, 2000), pp. 213-21.

Description
Examines the historical situation of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Castile, challenging the traditional interpretation that The Book of the Duchess is an elegy for Blanche.

Alternative Title
Fiction and Truth: Essays on Fourteenth-Century English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.