Seeking the Medieval in Shakespeare: The Order of the Garter and the Topos of Derisive Chivalry
- Author / Editor
- Ortego, James N., II.
Seeking the Medieval in Shakespeare: The Order of the Garter and the Topos of Derisive Chivalry
- Published
- Fifteenth-Century Studies 35 (2010): 80-104.
- Description
- Reviews several late medieval texts to demonstrate the "devolution of knighthood" before Shakespeare's time. Comments on the GP description of the Knight, on MerT, and on Th.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Merchant and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas