Narrow Margins of Meaning and the Metamorphosis of the Power-holder: The Political Figure of Theseus in Chaucer and in Chaucer's Predecessors, Euripides, Statius, Le Roman de Thèbes, and Boccaccio's Teseida

Author / Editor
Greenwood, Maria K.

Title
Narrow Margins of Meaning and the Metamorphosis of the Power-holder: The Political Figure of Theseus in Chaucer and in Chaucer's Predecessors, Euripides, Statius, Le Roman de Thèbes, and Boccaccio's Teseida

Published
Colette Stvanovitch, ed. Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise (Nancy: AMAES, 2006), pp. 247-69.

Description
Focuses on Theseus in KnT as Chaucer's critique of power-holders in general.

Alternative Title
Marges/Seuils: Le liminal dans la littérature médiévale anglaise.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.