'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.
'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