Is This Winning?: Prince Henry's Death and the Problem of Chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Author / Editor
- Herman, Peter C.
Is This Winning?: Prince Henry's Death and the Problem of Chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen
- Published
- SoAR 62: 1-31, 1997.
- Description
- The death of England's Prince Henry sparked a "sense of near-nihilism" and prompted Shakespeare and Fletcher to question chivalry in The Two Noble Kinsmen. This interrogation anticipates modern readings of KnT--the source of the play--as a "demystification of chivalric conduct." Shakespeare and Fletcher's reaction to KnT differs radically from Speght's.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.