Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite': Its Merits and Flaws as a Translation of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Milne, Fred L.
Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite': Its Merits and Flaws as a Translation of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Meta 23 (1978): 200-10.
- Description
- Dryden's alterations of Chaucer's narrative division, versification, motif and thematic emphasis, and character portrayal follow his avowed principles of translation. But his alterations in the "spirit" of Chaucer's tale violate one of his important principles and produce a work significantly different in meaning from Chaucer's original.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Knight and His Tale.