A Critical Reading of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" with the Aid of Boccaccio's "Teseida."

Author / Editor
Van, Thomas Anthony

Title
A Critical Reading of Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" with the Aid of Boccaccio's "Teseida."

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 28.02 (1967): 697A.

Description
Summarizes portions of Boccaccio's "Teseida" and assesses parallel portions of KnT in light of these summaries, emphasizing Chaucer's "reworking" of his source in characterizing Palamon, Arcite, and Theseus through "symbolic imagery."

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations