PAWN TAKES KNIGHT'S QUEEN: PLAYING WITH CHESS IN THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS.

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    • Subject Terms:
      CHAUCER, Geoffrey, d. 1400
    • Abstract:
      Criticizes the application of chess allegory in the poem 'Book of the Duchess,' by Geoffrey Chaucer. Influence of the book 'Roman de la Rose' on the poem; Representation of the relationship between King John of Gaunt and wife Blanche; Speculation over the sources for Chaucer's knowledge of chess; Dialectics of chess on the romantic notions of marriage.