Guillaume de Machaut, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, and the Chaucer Tradition

Author / Editor
Davis, Steven.

Title
Guillaume de Machaut, Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, and the Chaucer Tradition

Published
ChauR 36 : 391-405, 2002.

Description
Chaucer uses the conventions of Machaut in BD to undermine them, demonstrating to his English readers that the French poetic tradition was two-dimensional, "narrow in scope and appeal, read primarily for diversion and reflection."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.