Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale?'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, Kathleen A.
Order and the Noble Life in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale?'
- Published
- Modern Language Quarterly 34 (1973): 3-19.
- Description
- Examines in KnT the rhetorical and thematic concerns with order, choice, and the difficulties of achieving resolution. Reads Palamon and Arcite as a balanced pair, and Theseus as a figure of the limited human ability to avert fortune and determine fate. Unlike in Boccaccio's "Teseida," disorderly Saturn dominates KnT; the Knight is deluded in thinking that orderly Jupiter is in control.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations