Rewriting Perfect Friendship in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Lydgate's 'Fabula Duorum Mercatorum'

Author / Editor
Stretter, Robert.

Title
Rewriting Perfect Friendship in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Lydgate's 'Fabula Duorum Mercatorum'

Published
Chaucer Review 37: 234-52, 2003.

Description
Chaucer uses conventions of the friendship tradition to explore the power of erotic desire; Lydgate rewrites the fatal rivalry to emphasize male friendship over male-female attraction.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.