From the "Knight's Tale" to "The Two Noble Kinsmen": Rethinking Race, Class, and Whiteness in Romance.

Author / Editor
Britton, Dennis Austin.

Title
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