Conflicts of Interest : Friendship and Love in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. The Case of 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'

Author / Editor
Stretter, Robert Eugene.

Title
Conflicts of Interest : Friendship and Love in Medieval and Renaissance English Literature. The Case of 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2316A, 2000.

Description
Focusing especially on love and fortune, Chaucer introduces to English literature the theme of male friendship in conflict with heterosexual love. By Shakespeare's time, this theme was treated even more darkly, moving from "guardedly optimistic philosophical romance to deeply pessimistic tragicomedy."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.