'My Wyl Is This' ('Canterbury Tales.' I[A] 1845): Chaucer's Sense of Power in 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Kawasaki, Masatoshi.

Title
'My Wyl Is This' ('Canterbury Tales.' I[A] 1845): Chaucer's Sense of Power in 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Clerk's Tale'

Published
Tomonori Matsushita, A. V. C. Schmidt, and David Wallace, eds. From Beowulf to Caxton: Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts (Bern: Lang, 2011), pp. 99-110.

Description
In the Ricardian period, English poets adopted strategies of indirection and displacement to comment on political power. The rulers' speeches in the KnT and the ClT reveal Chaucer's sense of power.

Alternative Title
From Beowulf to Caxton: Studies in Medieval Languages and Literature, Texts and Manuscripts.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Clerk and His Tale