Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Were Arcite and Emelye Really Married? Why It Matters

Author / Editor
Thomas, Paul R.

Title
Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Were Arcite and Emelye Really Married? Why It Matters

Published
T. L. Burton and John F. Plummer, eds. "Seyd in Forme and Reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. (Provo, Utah: Chaucer Studio Press, 2005), pp. 19-35.

Description
Argues that Palamon and Arcite in KnT are very carefully balanced, "even equivalent" as warriors, lovers, and husbands to Emelye. Explains aspects of the symmetry by means of fin amor, or courtly love.

Alternative Title
Seyd in Forme and Reverence: Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.