'My Sweete Foe': Emelye's Role in The Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Woods, William F.
'My Sweete Foe': Emelye's Role in The Knight's Tale
- Published
- Studies in Philology 88 (1991): 276-306.
- Description
- Discusses Emelye's role as Prime Mover in KnT, "structurally and thematically central to the tale" and parallel to Saturn's role as mediator among the gods. Central in each of the four parts of the tale, she develops from a chaste maid in the garden to the innocent devotee of Diana--one who makes "a virtue of being desired."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.