Chaucer as a Pawn in the Book of the Duchess.
- Author / Editor
- Rowland, Beryl.
Chaucer as a Pawn in the Book of the Duchess.
- Published
- American Notes and Queries 6.1 (1967): 3-5.
- Description
- Suggests that — in light of details of Chaucer's career and of medieval chess-playing — the significance of "fers" in BD 741 may be "threefold," referring to Blanche, to the chess piece, and to "Chaucer himself, the commoner promoted from pawn to 'fers'."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Chaucer's Life
Language and Word Studies