Rewriting Perfect Friendship in Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Lydgate's 'Fabula Duorum Mercatorum'
- Author / Editor
- Stretter, Robert.
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.