The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite'

Author / Editor
Hammond, Paul.

Title
The Interplay of Past and Present in Dryden's 'Palamon and Arcite'

Published
Seventeenth Century 23 (2008): 142-59.

Description
Hammond compares and contrasts Dryden's "Palamon and Arcite" from his "Fables Ancient and Modern" with its source, Chaucer's KnT, finding that Dryden reworked religious and political concerns to create a "macaronic fabric" that combines classical, medieval, and Restoration motifs in an idealized whole.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
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