Reading Chaucer "in Parts": "The Knight's Tale" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Author / Editor
Rogerson, Margaret.

Title
Reading Chaucer "in Parts": "The Knight's Tale" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Published
Jan Shaw, Philippa Kelly, and L. E. Semler, eds. Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 167–80.

Description
Observes how KnT signals transitions, scene changes, gestures, and even costuming, perhaps inspiring Shakespeare and Fletcher to create "The Two Noble Kinsmen" by dividing the Chaucer poem into written "parts" for actors before assembling their entire play.

Contributor
Shaw, Jan, ed.
Kelly, Philippa, ed.
Semler, L. E., ed.

Alternative Title
Storytelling: Critical and Creative Approaches

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion