2 Idleness, Chess, and Tables: Recuperating Fables in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. List of Contributors ix
6. Abbreviations and Editions xi
7. Introduction: Reopening the Book of the Duchess 1
8. I. Books and Bodies
9. 1 Codicology, Text, and the Book of the Duchess 11
10. 2 Idleness, Chess, and Tables: Recuperating Fables in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 29
11. 3 ‘Noon other werke’: The Work of Sleep in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 51
12. 4 Discovering Woe: The Translation of Affect in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess and Spenser’s Daphnaïda 71
13. II. The Intertextual Duchess
14. 5 Alcyone’s Grave: Inscription and Intertextuality in Chaucer, Spenser, and Ovid 97
15. 6 Tribute to a Duchess: The Book of the Duchess and Machaut’s Remede de Fortune 119
16. 7 ‘Hyt am I’: Voicing Selves in the Book of the Duchess, the Roman de la rose, and the Fonteinne Amoureuse 135
17. 8 ‘Counterfeit’ Imitatio: Understanding the Poet-Patron Relationship in Machaut’s Fonteinne amoureuse and Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess 157
18. 9 The Shock of the Old? The Unsettling Art of Chaucer’s Antique Citations 177
19. 10 Response: The Book of the Duchess, Guillaume de Machaut, and the Image of the Archive 199
20. Bibliography 213
21. Index 230