The Cloak of Romance: Love and Death in "The Knight's Tale."

Author / Editor
Librach, Ronald S.

Title
The Cloak of Romance: Love and Death in "The Knight's Tale."

Published
Interpretations 14.2 (1983): pp. 1-14

Description
Explores nuances of Boethian Providence, fortune, destiny, and human perceptions of them in KnT, along with relations between death and love in their worldly and spiritual manifestations. Argues that in KnT Chaucer burlesques the "romantic sensibility" that ignores "the natural reality over which death--at once the end of Fortune's caprice and the end of Providence's plan for man's communion with a loving God--presides."

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