Domesticating Amazons in The Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Hamaguchi, Keiko.

Title
Domesticating Amazons in The Knight's Tale

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 331-54.

Description
Explores the "postcolonial uneasiness visible" in KnT, particularly in Hippolyta's subversive mimicry in the face of efforts by Theseus and the Knight to westernize her "Amazon-ness." Emelye's powerful gaze upon the victorious Arcite reveals similar slippage.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.