Chaucer's 'Book of the Duchess' and the 'Law of Kinde'

Description: Discusses the concerns with suffering and pity in BD as aspects of universal nature that binds together everything and thereby makes possible the consolation in the poem for the Black Knight (John of Gaunt), the Dreamer (Chaucer), and the audience. The work artfully mitigates the experience of pain and reflects a Boethian awareness of universal law, which is also evident in TC, and a variation on the theme of experience versus authority.