The Modern Art of Fortifying: "Palamon and Arcite" as Epicurean Epic.

Author / Editor
Middleton, Anne.

Title
The Modern Art of Fortifying: "Palamon and Arcite" as Epicurean Epic.

Published
Chaucer Review 3.2 (1968): 124-43.

Description
Shows how Dryden altered KnT from romance to epic in order to make his adaptation, "Palamon and Arcite," exemplify "what a heroic poem should be, and by what means it should affect the reader." Also offers "reasons why the change from romance to epic does not fully succeed."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Knight and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion