'Tears for Passing Things': The Temple of Diana in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Harrison, Joseph.
'Tears for Passing Things': The Temple of Diana in the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Philological Quarterly 63 (1984): 108-16.
- Description
- In contrast to the painful stasis of the temples of Mars and Venus, which Chaucer found in Boccaccio's "Teseida," the invented Temple of Diana emphasizes mutability and transformation, revealing the "hidden, more original concern" of KnT with the "widening gulf between heaven and earth."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.