Social Flux in the "Knight's Tale": Chaucer's Fourteenth-Century Reworking of a Romance.

Author / Editor
Knoetze, Retha.

Title
Social Flux in the "Knight's Tale": Chaucer's Fourteenth-Century Reworking of a Romance.

Published
English Academy Review 34, no. 1 (2017): 85-98.

Description
Assesses KnT in light of conventions of the romance genre and Boccaccio's "Teseida," arguing that the tale engages tensions "between a traditional communal feudal ideology and a newer more individualist and commercial outlook present in Chaucer's society."

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