Theseus's 'Ordinaunce': Justice and Ceremony in the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Nicholson, R. H.

Title
Theseus's 'Ordinaunce': Justice and Ceremony in the 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 192-213.

Description
The public ceremonies--the triumph, trial by battle, and the state funeral--underlining the Knight's conversion of romance into figurative narrative suggest that the public personality of Theseus, the ruler, is the dominant personality in KnT.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.