The Knight's Tale and the Ideology of the Roman Antique
- Author / Editor
- Clogan, Paul M.
The Knight's Tale and the Ideology of the Roman Antique
- Published
- Medievalia et Humanistica 18 (1992): 129-55.
- Description
- KnT participates in the Roman Antique tradition by expressing a political ideology found in other medieval retellings of classical stories. The Tale argues for harmonizing passion and wisdom through marriage and rewrites Theban history to conceal ideological contradictions in Chaucer's society.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.