Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and the Three Ages of Man

Author / Editor
Burrow, J. A.

Title
Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and the Three Ages of Man

Published
J. A. Burrow. Essays on Medieval Literature. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 27-48. Also in Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds. Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature (Tubingen: Narr, 1984), pp. 91-108.

Description
Analyzes characters, both divine and human, in KnT as "representatives of the "three ages of man: youth, maturity, and old age."

Alternative Title
Essays on Medieval Literature.
Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.