The Meaning of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Brooks, Douglas, and Alastair Fowler.
The Meaning of Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'
- Published
- Medium Aevum 39 (1970): 123-46.
- Description
- Identifies parallels between the "planetary deities" and the human characters in KnT; describes the "iconology" of Lygurge and Emetreus, particularly the psychological implications of their astrological affiliations; and explores the physiognomic, moral, and psychological differences between Palamon and Arcite, arguing that the poem depicts the Knight's ideas of order underlying chaos and moral progression to maturity through a series of planetary stages.
- Contributor
- Fowler, Alastair.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale