'Love Can No Frenship': Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and Lydgate's 'Fabula duorum mercatorum'
- Author / Editor
- Farvolden, Pamela.
'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.