Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale' and the Decline of Chivalry
- Author / Editor
- Kahrl, Stanley J.
Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale' and the Decline of Chivalry
- Published
- Chaucer Review 7.3 (1973): 194-209.
- Description
- Argues that SqT "presents the growing impulse toward exoticism and disorder at work in the courts of late medieval Europe," the antithesis of classical order depicted in KnT. Also comments on notions of "gentilesse" and the uses of rhetorical colors in SqT and FranT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Knight and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Style and Versification