From the "Knight's Tale" to "The Two Noble Kinsmen": Rethinking Race, Class, and Whiteness in Romance.
- Author / Editor
- Britton, Dennis Austin.
From the "Knight's Tale" to "The Two Noble Kinsmen": Rethinking Race, Class, and Whiteness in Romance.
- Published
- postmedieval 6.1 (2015): 64–78.
- Description
- Establishes how Shakespeare and Fletcher used "images of Africanness to link race and class" in "The Two Noble Kinsmen," and claims this differs from Chaucer's concern with the "racial alterity" and "whiteness" of the Amazonian women in KnT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion