Choosing Thou or You to Reveal Ideal Relationships in The Knight's Tale

Author / Editor
Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.

Title
Choosing Thou or You to Reveal Ideal Relationships in The Knight's Tale

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 26 (2010): 69-84.

Description
Reiff examines uses of second-person singular pronouns "thou" and "you" to indicate relationships among characters in KnT, particularly idealized chivalric relationships, Theseus's changing attitude toward the knights, the unfaltering brotherhood between Palamon and Arcite, the courtly interactions of the gods, and the nobility's status before the gods.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Language and Word Studies