Poison and Infection in Chaucer's Knight's and Canon's Yeoman's Tales
- Author / Editor
- Hallissy, Margaret.
Poison and Infection in Chaucer's Knight's and Canon's Yeoman's Tales
- Published
- Essays in Arts and Sciences 10 (1981): 31-39.
- Description
- Chaucer draws on the medical and literary traditions about poison current in his day. In KnT, Arcite's love for Emelye is pictured as a deadly infection.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.