'Sentence' and 'Solaas': Proverbs and Consolation in the 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Luxon, Thomas H.

Title
'Sentence' and 'Solaas': Proverbs and Consolation in the 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 94-111.

Description
Frequent proverbs prevent the discovery of true comfort. The reader is "distanced" from the events in KnT and reminded that true "solaas" is found only through very long, very difficult, and individual struggle.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.