The Naked Truth: Chaucerian Spectacle in Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Echard, Siân.

Title
The Naked Truth: Chaucerian Spectacle in Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale."

Published
Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds. Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the "Canterbury Tales" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2016), pp. 167-83.

Description
Explores the "unexpected points of contact between" Brian Helgeland's "A Knight's Tale" and Chaucer's poetry, discussing ways that the film and KnT focus on tilting arenas and order, their affinities with pastiche, their concern with the power of the poet, and their "enlisting" of audience "complicity."

Alternative Title
Chaucer on Screen.

Chaucer Subjects
Recordings and Films
Knight and His Tale