The Modern Art of Fortifying: "Palamon and Arcite" as Epicurean Epic.
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
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