Once More to the Grove: A Note of Symbolic Space in the Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Eyler, Joshua R., and John P. Sexton.
Once More to the Grove: A Note of Symbolic Space in the Knight's Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 40 (2006): 433-39.
- Description
- Following Arcite's death in KnT, Theseus designates for his funeral "that selve grove" (1. 2860) where Arcite and Palamon first fought privately, which technically would have been "destroyed" to erect the lists for the public tournament in which Arcite met his demise. This ostensible textual inconsistency "enforces . . . the chaotic conclusion of the tournament: nothing has truly been resolved."
- Contributor
- Sexton, John P.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.