The Old Testament of Babylon: A Rereading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Thompson, Charlotte Barclay.

Title
The Old Testament of Babylon: A Rereading of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 40.08 (1980): 4612-13A.

Description
Reads KnT as a veiled, enigmatic "literary game," disclosing it to be a "pagan analogue of the Old Testament" and a prefiguration of the New, ripe with figurative characters and events, and deeply inscribed with archteypes.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale