Chaucer's Knight as Don Quijote

Author / Editor
Raffel, Burton.

Title
Chaucer's Knight as Don Quijote

Published
Notre Dame English Journal 10 (1976): 1-11.

Description
Examines details and reads tonal shifts in the GP description of the Knight (in comparison with the Monk) and in KnT, considering them as evidence of Chaucer's gentle, humorous depiction of chivalry. Neither sharply satiric nor wholly idealistic, KnT is parodied by the MilT.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales