Narrative Focus and Function in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, James Neil.
Narrative Focus and Function in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Massachusetts Studies in English 2 (1970): 71-79.
- Description
- Characterizes the narrator of BD as a comic "would-be courtier" who takes pains to "appear courtly and noble and in love." The narrator is also likeable and much in awe of the Black Knight, functioning as a device whereby Chaucer censures excessive grief and "eulogize[s] superbly the dead duchess."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess