Homosociality and Creative Masculinity in the Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Ingham, Patricia Clare.
Homosociality and Creative Masculinity in the Knight's Tale
- Published
- Peter G. Beidler, ed. Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1998), pp. 23-35.
- Description
- Examines masculine suffering and Theseus's stoic masculinity, particularly how it demands the suffering of the ruler's soldiers and the sorrowing of women. Concludes that the Tale depicts Theseus's creative power as specifically masculine.
- Alternative Title
- Masculinities in Chaucer: Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.