Shakespeare's Romantic Innocents and the Misappropriation of the Romance Past: The Case of The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Author / Editor
- Hillman, Richard.
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