The Knight: The First Mover in Chaucer’s Human Comedy.
- Author / Editor
- Neuse, Richard.
The Knight: The First Mover in Chaucer’s Human Comedy.
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 31 (1962): 299-315.
- Description
- Explores comedy and irony in KnT, both extending from the Knight's perspective on Christian chivalric values in a pagan epic setting and his disclosure of the "absurdity of earthly action." Focuses on Theseus's political opportunism and his ambiguities, as well as a more general indictment of human "will and appetite," mirrored and highlighted in MilT, but also part of the drive toward "higher fulfillment" found throughout the CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Canterbury Tales--General