Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Were Arcite and Emelye Really Married? Why It Matters
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Paul R.
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.