Thematic Relationships between Chaucer's Squire's Portrait and Tale and the Knight's Portrait and Tale

Author / Editor
Hatton, Thomas J.

Title
Thematic Relationships between Chaucer's Squire's Portrait and Tale and the Knight's Portrait and Tale

Published
Studies in Medieval Culture 4 (1974): 452-58.

Description
The Squire's concupiscence and selfishness contrast with the Knight's love of chivalric virtues. Through the Squire and his tale Chaucer may be suggesting that the knights of Richard II's court return to the values represented by his own perfect knight.

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale.
Knight and His Tale.