Choosing Thou or You to Reveal Ideal Relationships in The Knight's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Reiff, Raychel Haugrud.
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