Remythologizing The Knight's Tale: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen

Author / Editor
Andreas, James R.

Title
Remythologizing The Knight's Tale: A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen

Published
Shakespeare Yearbook 2 : 49-67, 1991.

Description
Traces the "progressive desacralization" of the "Matter of Thebes" from KnT to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The gods have power in KnT, but they diminish comically and then tragically disappear in Shakespeare's plays.

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