'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Bishop, Ian.
'Troilus and Criseyde' and the 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Boris Ford, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Volume 1, Part 1: Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition (New York and Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1982), pp. 174-87.
- Description
- Treats TC and KnT together because each derives from a source by Boccaccio and because each includes Boethian thought; also considers the Shakespearean analogues of each and compares each with opera, Books 1-3 of TC correspond to the "medieval notion" of comedy; Books 4-5, with their idea of tragedy. KnT verges on tragedy, but resolves conflict in a "felicitous confluence of dynastic considerations."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Literature: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion