'As Olde Stories Tellen Us': Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in The Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Mitchell-Smith, Ilan.
'As Olde Stories Tellen Us': Chivalry, Violence, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Critical Perspective in The Knight's Tale
- Published
- FCS 32 (2007): 83-99.
- Description
- Violence and all excess reveal the uncontrollable nature of the world Theseus tries to order. Chaucer makes his story less chivalric than Boccaccio's to emphasize that humans, completely at the whim of Fortune, are incapable of maintaining any control.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.