Fortune's Chain of Love: Chaucer's Irony in Theseus' Marriage Counselling

Author / Editor
Harder, Bernhard D.

Title
Fortune's Chain of Love: Chaucer's Irony in Theseus' Marriage Counselling

Published
University of Windsor Review (Ontario) 18:1 (1984): 47-52.

Description
The coherence problem in KnT can be solved by viewing the tale as Boethian, but Theseus ironically perverts Boethian arguments from "De consolatione philosophiae" until those arguments contradict Boethian philosophy, typically telling a familiar story but ironically twisting the ending.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.