The Genius to Improve an Invention : Transformations of the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero.
The Genius to Improve an Invention : Transformations of the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp. 185-98.
- Description
- Boitani studies the chain of literary works that stem from Chaucer's KnT, namely "The Two Noble Kinsmen" of Shakespeare and Fletcher and Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite." The story of Palamon and Arcite has features in common with that of Troilus and Cressida, and both stories pass from the hands of Boccaccio to Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.