Shakespeare's Romantic Innocents and the Misappropriation of the Romance Past: The Case of The Two Noble Kinsmen

Author / Editor
Hillman, Richard.

Title
Shakespeare's Romantic Innocents and the Misappropriation of the Romance Past: The Case of The Two Noble Kinsmen

Published
Shakespeare Survey 43 (1991): 69-79.

Description
Contrasts the characterizations of Theseus and Emily in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" and KnT, focusing on how the play challenges the principles of romance by manipulating Chaucerian material and perspective. Revised slightly as "(Mis)Appropriating the Romance Past in'"The Two Noble Kinsmen'," in Hillman's Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992), pp. 136-54.

Alternative Title
"(Mis)Appropriating the Romance Past in'"The Two Noble Kinsmen'."
Intertextuality and Romance in Renaissance Drama: The Staging of Nostalgia.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Knight and His Tale