The Two Mayings in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale': Convention and Invention
- Author / Editor
- Stock, Lorraine Kochanske.
The Two Mayings in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale': Convention and Invention
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 85 (1986): 206-21.
- Description
- Chaucer creates structural, linguistic, and thematic affinities between the Mayings of Emelye and Arcite. Emelye's Maying implicitly presents her as a flower; her wearing of green clothes suggests both carnal Flora and chaste Diana. Arcite's song may be interpreted as a near-obscene request to deflower Emelye.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.