Chaucer's "Mistake": "The Book of the Duchess," Line 455.

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
Chaucer's "Mistake": "The Book of the Duchess," Line 455.

Published
American Notes and Queries 4.7 (1966): 99-100.

Description
Suggests that in making the Black Knight 24 years old in BD (rather than 29, the age of John of Gaunt), Chaucer "assigned his own age to his patron."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Chaucer's Life