Shakespeare's 'Knight's Tale': 'Two Noble Kinsmen' and the Tradition of Chivalry
- Author / Editor
- Mulryne, J. R.
Shakespeare's 'Knight's Tale': 'Two Noble Kinsmen' and the Tradition of Chivalry
- Published
- M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Roman de Chivalerie au Temps de la Renaissance (Paris: Jean Touzot Libraire-Editeur, 1987), pp. 75-106.
- Description
- Reads Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen" as written in commemoration of the chivalric ideals and sudden death of Henry, Prince of Wales, and composed "under the creative discipline" of KnT. For the playwrights, Chaucer's poem provided "almost a perfect model" for a "varying focus between communal and private grief, qualified and interpreted by the rituals of funeral and marriage," appropriate to the death of Henry and the subsequent marriage of his sister, Elizabeth.
- Contributor
- Jones-Davies, M[arie]-T[hérèse], ed.
- Alternative Title
- Roman de Chivalerie au Temps de la Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Knight and His Tale