What Spooks Arcite's Steed? According to Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dryden, and Shakespeare
- Author / Editor
- Bowden, Betsy.
What Spooks Arcite's Steed? According to Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dryden, and Shakespeare
- Published
- Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 33-46.
- Description
- Discusses four versions of Arcite's death and focuses on the actions of the horses in each: in Boccaccio, as in Statius, divine interventions frighten the horses; Chaucer's Arcite falls due to both a god's intervention and his own pride; in Dryden, pride is the primary cause; and in Shakespeare's offstage version, Arcite is thrown after a spark frightens his horse.
- Alternative Title
- Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion