Death and Betrayal in "The Book of the Duchess."
- Author / Editor
- Mann, Jill.
Death and Betrayal in "The Book of the Duchess."
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 73 (2023): 379-405.
- Description
- Questions claims that BD is a poem of consolation, arguing that it is instead a "renewal of grief," focusing its three units of "reading, dreaming, [and] remembering," attending to source materials, and suggesting that the Black Knight may have been forgetful or "unfaithful to the memory of his love." Includes comments on "the difficulty of sustaining an extremity of grief" in FranT and on the fears that grief can engender.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Sources, Analohues, and Literary Relations
Franklin and His Tale