Three Readings of The Knight's Tale: Sir John Clanvowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and James I of Scotland

Author / Editor
Bowers, John M.

Title
Three Readings of The Knight's Tale: Sir John Clanvowe, Geoffrey Chaucer, and James I of Scotland

Published
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 279-307.

Description
Three variants of KnT--Sir John Clanvowe's reading of the story of Palamon and Arcite, Chaucer's KnT, and "The Kingis Quair" of James I--provide insight into the shifting ideologies of chivalric performance and the establishment of Chaucer as a literary author during the Ricardian and Lancastrian periods.

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