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.
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.