• The Book of the Duchess, like all of Chaucer's works, is written in Middle English, well before spelling was standardized by the poet, writer...
  • Opening title of The Dreame of Chaucer, commonly referred to as The Book of the Duchess, Geoffrey Chaucer's first own work...
    • The Book of the Duchess, also called The Deth of Blaunche.
    • Blanche was the first wife of John of Gaunt, who died of the plague.
    The knight describes his loss of the beloved “Good Fair White”.
  • Anon this god of slepe a−brayd Out of his slepe, and gan to goon, And did as he had bede him doon; Took up the dreynte body sone, The Book of the Duchess.
  • Such a desire at once me took. To sleep, that right upon my book. I fell asleep, and therewith seemed. To dream so wholly sweet a dream
  • The Book of the Duchess was written by Geoffrey Chaucer sometime follow-ing the death of John of Gaunt’s first wife Blanche, the Duchess of Lancaster, in...
  • while people still paid close attention to the laws of nature. 57 This book ne spak but of such thinges, ne spak but of described nothing but.
  • These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of The Book of the Duchess and Other Poems.
  • The Book of the Duchess. I have gret wonder, be this lyght, How that I lyve, for day ne nyght I may nat slepe wel nygh noght; I have so many an ydel thoght...
  • There are some parallels between Chaucer's Book of the Duchess and the Consolation of Philosophy, which he translated from Latin into Middle English.