"In hir bed al naked": Nakedness and Male Grief in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Liendo, Elizabeth.

Title
"In hir bed al naked": Nakedness and Male Grief in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Published
Philological Quarterly 96.4 (2017): 405-24.

Description
Seeks to understand BD as an exploration of (male) grief beyond its presumed historical occasion and to relate the subject and structure of the poem by explicating the recurring references to literal and metaphorical nakedness--especially that of Alcyone and the Man in Black.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess