The Walking Dead in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Author / Editor
Shimomura, Sachi.

Title
The Walking Dead in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'

Published
Chaucer Review 48.2 (2013): 390-415.

Description
Addresses how "manipulations of time" affect the narrative structure of KnT, and "recreate instabilities inherent to fourteenth-century chivalric ideas." Views Theseus, Palamon, and Arcite as the "walking dead," since they only "exist in literature and imagination."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale