Asinine Heroism and the Mediation of Empire in Chaucer, Marlowe, and Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Cressler, Loren.

Title
Asinine Heroism and the Mediation of Empire in Chaucer, Marlowe, and Shakespeare

Published
Modern Language Quarterly 81.3 (2020): 319-47.

Description
Assesses Theseus of LGW as a "superlative of falseness," arguing that the figure, more so than the Theseus of KnT or its classical precedents, influenced Marlowe and Nash'’s "Dido, Queen of Carthage" and, subsequently, Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Legend of Good Women
Knight and His Tale