What Spooks Arcite's Steed? According to Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dryden, and Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
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