The Sources of "The Book of the Duchess."
- Author / Editor
- Severs, J. Burke.
The Sources of "The Book of the Duchess."
- Published
- Mediaeval Studies 25 (1963): 355-62.
- Description
- Locates in Old French love poems sources for various aspects of BD, citing previously unnoticed parallels with passages from Guillaume de Machaut and Jean Froissart, and arguing that similar parallels and the "general situation and conduct" of Chaucer's poem can be found in the anonymous "Le Songe Vert."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations