Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Knight's Tale': Fictions Used
- Author / Editor
- Penninger, Frieda Elaine.
Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' and 'The Knight's Tale': Fictions Used
- Published
- Lanham, Md.;
- New York;
- and London: University Press of America, 1993.
- Physical Description
- vii, 110 pp.
- Description
- Reads KnT and TC as "tales of fortune's fools" in which the traditional themes of romantic love and knightly chivalry are undercut by verbal play and the trivialization of notions of pity, mercy, grace, and love.
- ParsT and Mel provide lexicons that emphasize the philosophical and spiritual limitations of the characters in the two romances, while SqT, FranT, and WBT help undercut the Knight's notion of knighthood.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Language and Word Studies.