Was Chaucer's Knight Really a Mercenary?
- Author / Editor
- Pratt, John H.
Was Chaucer's Knight Really a Mercenary?
- Published
- Chaucer Review 22 (1987): 8-27.
- Description
- Terry Jones, in "Chaucer's Knight: Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary" (1980), maintains that Chaucer criticizes the Knight and his motives and expects his audience to join him. Evidence shows, however, that the Knight is portrayed sympathetically though he was indeed paid for his services.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.