"Noon other werke": The Work of Sleep in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Author / Editor
Davis, Rebecca.

Title
"Noon other werke": The Work of Sleep in Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess."

Published
In Jamie C. Fumo, ed. Chaucer's "Book of the Duchess": Contexts and Interpretations (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2018), pp. 51-69.

Description
Examines the "metafictional import of sleep," as distinct from dreaming, in BD. Influenced by Machaut's "Livre de la fonteinne amoreuse," BD aligns sleep, as an embodied process, with the "werk" of elegy.

Alternative Title
Book of the Duchess: Contexts and Interpretations.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations