'Love Can No Frenship': Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Lydgate's 'Fabula duorum mercatorum'

Author / Editor
Farvolden, Pamela.

Title
'Love Can No Frenship': Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Lydgate's 'Fabula duorum mercatorum'

Published
Muriel Whitaker, ed. Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature (New York and London: Garland, 1995), pp. 21-45.

Description
In KnT, courtly love seems antithetical to brotherhood in arms, but the eventual disposal of Emelye reinstates male friendship. Lydgate offers a related, more explicit model of supposedly benign homosocial exchange.

Alternative Title
Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.