Flowers of Friendship: Amity and Tragic Desire in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Author / Editor
- Stretter, Robert.
Flowers of Friendship: Amity and Tragic Desire in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Published
- English Literary Renaissance 47 (2017): 270-300.
- Description
- Argues that Shakespeare and John Fletcher's adaptation of KnT in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" emphasizes the failure of same-sex friendship, darkens tone, and approaches tragic pessimism--in contrast with Chaucer's "cautiously optimistic philosophical romance." Compares aspects of the play with KnT--particularly details pertaining to flower imagery and same-sex friendship in tension with erotic, procreative love--and assesses the anxious depiction of Chaucer and literary paternity in the prologue to "The Two Noble Kinsmen."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
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