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Chaucer's Duchess and Chess
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rowland, Beryl |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | The crux occurs in the dialogue between the mourning knight and the dreamer.1 The setting is a hart hunt and the two protagonists are engaged in heart-hunting. Word play, especially traductio, ad nominatio, and sijjnificatio, was used not only in Latin composition in the Middle Ages but also very freely in vernacular poetry. As a result of its use in this poem, we discover that the knight is John of Gaunt or, as he was known until 1372, John of Richmond,2 and his dead wife is Blanche, the Duchess of Lancaster: |
| Starting Page | 41 |
| Ending Page | 59 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/flor/article/viewFile/19196/20850 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
